Surgical management of the recurrent laryngeal nerve in thyroidectomy: American Head and Neck Society Consensus Statement.

Surgical management of the recurrent laryngeal nerve in thyroidectomy: American Head and Neck Society Consensus Statement.

Head Neck. 2018 Feb 20;:

Authors: Fundakowski CE, Hales NW, Agarwal N, Barczyński M, Camacho PM, Hartl DM, Kandil E, Liddy WE, McKenzie TJ, Morris JC, Ridge JA, Schneider R, Serpell J, Sinclair CF, Snyder SK, Terris DJ, Tuttle RM, Wu CW, Wong RJ, Zafereo M, Randolph GW

Abstract
"I have noticed in operations of this kind, which I have seen performed by others upon the living, and in a number of excisions, which I have myself performed on the dead body, that most of the difficulty in the separation of the tumor has occurred in the region of these ligaments…. This difficulty, I believe, to be a very frequent source of that accident, which so commonly occurs in removal of goiter, I mean division of the recurrent laryngeal nerve." Sir James Berry (1887).

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