Latencies shorter than 3.5 ms after vagus nerve stimulation signify a nonrecurrent inferior laryngeal nerve before dissection

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1172-1177

  Brauckhoff, Michael ^a,b,c   MacHens, Andreas ^a   Sekulla, Carsten ^a   Lorenz, Kerstin ^a   Dralle, Henning ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITÄT HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LARYNGEAL NERVE; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROMONITORING; PARATHYROID DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID DISEASE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PARATHYROID DISEASES; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; REACTION TIME; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957511034     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182128b9e     Document Type: Article

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