Real-time monitoring of the recurrent laryngeal nerve: An observational clinical trial

Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 359-365

  Ulmer, Christoph ^a   Koch, Klaus Peter ^c   Seimer, Andreas ^b   Molnar, Viktor ^a   Meyding Lamadé, Uta ^d   Thon, Klaus Peter ^a   Lamadé, Wolfram ^a  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b MARIENHOSPITAL STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^d Hospital Nord   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMPLANTATION; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID SURGERY; VAGUS NERVE; VOCAL CORD DISORDER;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 39149121839     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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