OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to summarize the experience of intraoperative neuromonitoring system for monitoring and protection of recurrent laryngeal nerve during thyroid surgery. METHODS There were 220 cases in this study, male 53, female 167, mean age 38.2 years old. 85 cases in the study had thyroid cancer, 19 cases had thyroid benign tumor, 90 cases had thyroid goiter, 3 cases had ...

Introduction: Ortner Syndrome (OS) is a disorder that presents with hoarseness due to compression of the Left Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve (LRLN) vascular origin, such as cardiac pathology.

OBJECTIVES Despite the modern advances in thyroid surgery, recurrent laryngeal nerve (rln) paralysis is still a critical problem. In order to decrease the rate of this complication, rln anatomy has been studied intensively. In our study, we aimed to recognize the relationship of rln and landmarks of the first tracheal ring. METHODS Eighty-six female and 18 male patients who were undergone tot...

BACKGROUND It has recently been reported that a signal latency shorter than 3.5 ms after electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve signify a nonrecurrent course of the inferior laryngeal nerve. We present a patient with an ascending nonrecurrent inferior laryngeal nerve. In this patient, the stimulation latency was longer than 3.5 ms. CASE PRESENTATION A 74-years old female underwent redo sur...

AIM The most dreaded complication of thyroidectomy is recurrent laryngeal nerve damage, which is most of the time hardly irreversible. In our experimental study we researched the use of free nerve grafts in the treatment of laryngeal nerve damage in rabbit. MATERIAL AND METHODS There were three groups in our study. In the first group, the recurrent laryngeal nerve was severed and then a free ...

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of intraoperative recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring to predict the postoperative functional outcome and the potential role of this technique in reducing the postoperative nerve palsy rate. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between June 2007 and December 2011, 1693 consecutive patients who underwent thyroidectomy by a single surgical team were evalu...

Objective: To find out the incidence of complications in Thyroid surgery in a tertiary care Hospital. Material and Methods: It was a retrospective study done in the Department of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan. The study was conducted from January 2006 to December, 2015. Results: Post operative complications were studied in 230 patients undergone thy...