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Innervation of the cricothyroid muscle by extralaryngeal branches of the recurrent laryngeal nerve

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: A major concern in thyroid surgery is possible changes in the patient's voice due to dysfunction of the laryngeal muscles. The classical understanding of the anatomy is that the cricothyroid muscle (CTM) is innervated solely by the external branch of the superior laryngea...

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Autores principales: Miyauchi, Akira, Masuoka, Hiroo, Nakayama, Ayako, Higashiyama, Takuya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5061096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26509739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lary.25691