The electrophysiology of thyroid surgery: electrophysiologic and muscular responses with stimulation of the vagus nerve, recurrent laryngeal nerve, and external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve

• Published in: The Laryngoscope Vol. 127; no. 3; p. 764
• Main Authors: Liddy, Whitney, Barber, Samuel R, Cinquepalmi, Matteo, Lin, Brian M, Patricio, Stephanie, Kyriazidis, Natalia, Bellotti, Carlo, Kamani, Dipti, Mahamad, Sadhana, Dralle, Henning, Schneider, Rick, Dionigi, Gianlorenzo, Barczynski, Marcin, Wu, Che-Wei, Chiang, Feng Yu, Randolph, Gregory
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.03.2017
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Cohort Studies; Electric Stimulation - methods; Electromyography - methods; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Laryngeal Muscles - innervation; Laryngeal Muscles - surgery; Male; Middle Aged; Monitoring, Intraoperative - methods; Preoperative Care - methods; Primary Prevention - methods; Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve - physiology; Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injuries - prevention & control; Retrospective Studies; Thyroid Gland - innervation; Thyroid Gland - surgery; Thyroidectomy - adverse effects; Thyroidectomy - methods; Treatment Outcome; Vagus Nerve - physiology; Vocal Cord Paralysis - prevention & control; Thyroid surgery; electrophysiology; recurrent laryngeal nerve; electromyography; vagus; intraoperative neural monitoring; external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve

Correlation of physiologically important electromyographic (EMG) waveforms with demonstrable muscle activation is important for the reliable interpretation of evoked waveforms during intraoperative neural monitoring (IONM) of the vagus nerve, recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN), and external branch of t...