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Syntopy of vagus nerve in the carotid sheath: A dissectional study of 50 cadavers

BACKGROUND: Vagus nerve anatomical position inside the carotid sheath is not clear in the literature. Nevertheless, monitoring laryngeal nerves during thyroid surgeries may damage big vessels in the carotid sheath (jugular vein; carotid artery). This gap led to an unprecedent cross sectional study o...

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Autores principales: Hojaij, Flavio, Rebelo, Gabriela, Akamatsu, Flavia, Andrade, Mauro, Camargo, Cristina, Cernea, Claudio, Jacomo, Alfredo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31236466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lio2.275