Electromyographic response persists after peripheral transection: Endorsement of current concepts in recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring in a porcine model

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 395, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-125

  Birkholz, Torsten ^a   Irouschek, Andrea ^a   Labahn, Dirk ^a   Klein, Peter ^a   Schmidt, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Endocrine surgical procedures; Intraoperative monitoring; Neurophysiology; Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DOMESTIC PIG; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LARYNX MUSCLE; MALE; MONITORING; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SWINE; THYROID DISEASE; TIME; VAGUS NERVE; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ISOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; MIVACURIUM; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ISOQUINOLINES; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SWINE; THYROID DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; VAGUS NERVE; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 77950879771     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-009-0570-0     Document Type: Article

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