A prospective, randomized trial of nerve monitoring of the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve during thyroidectomy under local/regional anesthesia and IV sedation

Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1167-1173

  Lifante, Jean Christophe ^a   McGill, Julie ^a   Murry, Thomas ^a   Aviv, Jonathan E ^a   Inabnet III, William B ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDATION; SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE; SWALLOWING; THYROIDECTOMY; VOICE;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 70549084868     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.09.023     Document Type: Article

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