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

  • Christopher E. Fundakowski
  • , Nathan W. Hales
  • , Nishant Agrawal
  • , Marcin Barczyński
  • , Pauline M. Camacho
  • , Dana M. Hartl
  • , Emad Kandil
  • , Whitney E. Liddy
  • , Travis J. McKenzie
  • , John C. Morris
  • , John A. Ridge
  • , Rick Schneider
  • , Jonathan Serpell
  • , Catherine F. Sinclair
  • , Samuel K. Snyder
  • , David J Terris
  • , R. Michael Tuttle
  • , Che Wei Wu
  • , Richard J. Wong
  • , Mark Zafereo
  • Gregory W. Randolph

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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).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)663-675
Number of pages13
JournalHead and Neck
Volume40
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2018

Keywords

  • Ligament of Berry
  • laryngeal
  • nerve
  • recurrent
  • thyroidectomy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Otorhinolaryngology

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