The need for standardized technique in intraoperative monitoring of the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve during thyroidectomy

Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 854-855

  Mangano, Alberto ^a   Dionigi, Gianlorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LETTER; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MORBIDITY; NERVE INJURY; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROENDOSCOPE; NEUROMONITORING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SEDATION; STROBOSCOPY; SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VOICE;

ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STROBOSCOPY; THYROIDECTOMY; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 79957672312     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.03.004     Document Type: Letter

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