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

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)

Source: Head and Neck - February 20, 2018 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Christopher E. Fundakowski, Nathan W. Hales, Nishant Agarwal, Marcin Barczy ński, 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 Tags: PRACTICE GUIDELINES Source Type: research