Abstract

DUENAS, Juan Pablo  and  DUQUE, Carlos Simón. Intraoperative monitoring of superior and inferior laryngeal nerves during thyroid and parathyroid surgery. rev. colomb. cir. [online]. 2012, vol.27, n.4, pp.298-305. ISSN 2011-7582.

Endocrine surgery, and particularly thyroid and parathyroid surgery, has undergone many changes since the mid-30s when proper visual identification of the recurrent nerve showed a reduction in injuries to the nerve. Nowadays, intraoperative identification of the recurrent laryngeal nerve is the standard of care, and it has come to help treating those difficult patients with big thyroid or parathyroid lesions, prior surgery, vocal cord paralysis, etc. This article reviews and describes the technique of intraoperative monitoring of the laryngeal nerve.

Keywords : recurrent laryngeal nerve; neural conduction; monitoring; intraoperative; thyroidectomy; parathyroidectomy.

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