Recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring versus identification alone on post-thyroidectomy true vocal fold palsy: A meta-analysis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1009-1017

  Higgins, Thomas S ^a   Gupta, Reena ^b   Ketcham, Amy S ^a   Sataloff, Robert T ^c   Wadsworth, J Trad ^d   Sinacori, John T ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Osborne Head and Neck Institute   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Laryngeal; neuromonitoring; palsy; paralysis; paresis; recurrent laryngeal nerve; thyroid; thyroidectomy; vocal cord; vocal fold

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; NERVE INJURY; NEUROMONITORING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE IDENTIFICATION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE MONITORING; SURGICAL RISK; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 79955526011     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21578     Document Type: Article

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