Recurrent laryngeal nerve identification and assessment during thyroid surgery: Laryngeal palpation

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 755-760

  Randolph, Gregory W ^a,c   Kobler, James B ^b   Wilkins, Jamie ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; PALPATION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; THYROID SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LARYNX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 4744347731     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-004-7348-x     Document Type: Article

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