Mapping the compound muscle action potentials of cricothyroid muscle using electromyography in thyroid operations: A novel method to clinically type the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 293-300

  Selvan, Ben ^a   Babu, Srinivasa ^a   Paul, M J ^a   Abraham, Deepak ^a   Samuel, Prasanna ^a   Nair, Aravindan ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CRICOTHYROID MUSCLE; DISSECTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BRANCH OF THE SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL NERVE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; INNERVATION; LARYNX MUSCLE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; DISSECTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MUSCLES; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 68949127340     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181b17342     Document Type: Article

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