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Loss of neuromonitoring signal during bilateral thyroidectomy: no systematic change in operative strategy according to a survey of the French Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AFCE)

BACKGROUND: Total thyroidectomy presents a risk of bilateral vocal cord paralysis, which can lead to compromised airway. Visual Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve (RLN) identification significantly decreases this risk of RLN lesion. Yet, an anatomically intact nerve is not always functional. Intraoperative n...

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Autores principales: Khamsy, Lilly, Constanthin, Paul E., Sadowski, Samira M., Triponez, Frédéric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4527217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26245329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-015-0082-5