Observations of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury and recovery using a rat model

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1644-1651

  Tessema, Belachew ^a   Roark, Rick M ^a   Pitman, Michael J ^a   Weissbrod, Philip ^a   Sharma, Sansar ^a   Schaefer, Steven D ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Histology; Rat model; RLN injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; BREATHING PATTERN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LARYNX MUSCLE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MOBILIZATION; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; VOCAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE REGENERATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; REFERENCE VALUES; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 68849084927     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20293     Document Type: Article

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