Surface electrode recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring during thyroid surgery: Normative values

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-37

  Choby, Garret ^a   Hollenbeak, Christopher S ^b   Johnson, Samuel ^a   Goldenberg, David ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuromonitoring; Recurrent laryngeal nerve; Surface electrodes; Thyroid surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITOR; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARESIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PARESIS; PENNSYLVANIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749141969     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNP.0b013e3181cb42c5     Document Type: Article

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