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Experience with intraoperative neuromonitoring of the recurrent laryngeal nerve improves surgical skills and outcomes of non-monitored thyroidectomy

PURPOSE: Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) can serve as a tool to increase skills in recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) identification and complete removal of thyroid tissue. The aim of this study was to validate this hypothesis. METHODS: This prospective study involved 632 patients (1161 RLNs at r...

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Autores principales: Wojtczak, Beata, Sutkowski, Krzysztof, Kaliszewski, Krzysztof, Głód, Mateusz, Barczyński, Marcin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5437184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27209315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00423-016-1449-5