Title: Clinical application of exposal of recurrent laryngeal nerve in thyroid surgery
Abstract: Objective To discuss the exposing methods of recurrent laryngeal nerve(RLN)in thyroid surgery for reducing the nerve injury.Methods We analyzed 267 cases with thyroid tumors retrospectively.In all the cases,RLN were anatomically exposed.Results Of all the cases the injury rate of RLN was,0.38%.Conclusion The anatomic relation of RLN is relatively complicated along its journey;the injury of RLN can be reduced with designed exposal during the thyroid surgery.
Key words:
thyroid tumor; thyroidectomy; recurent laryn geal nerve
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-04-30
Language: en
Type: article
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