Anomalous relationship of coexisting ipsilateral recurren and nonrecurrent inferior laryngeal nerves during thyroid surgery

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Babademez, Mehmet Ali ^b   Günbey, Emre ^a   Ozmen, Erkan ^b   Celik, Emrah ^b  

^a Cankiri Government Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Kecioren Training and Research Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Inferior laryngeal nerve; Nonrecurrent laryngeal nerve; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NERVES; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84878474724     PISSN: 10492275     EISSN: 15363732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SCS.0b013e3182801edd     Document Type: Article

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