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Why monitor the recurrent laryngeal nerve in thyroid surgery?

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  1. Department of Surgical Sciences, Endocrine Surgery Research Center, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

    G. Dionigi

  2. Department of Endocrine Surgery, 3rd Chair of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

    M. Barczynski

  3. Department of Otolaryngology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    F. Y. Chiang

  4. Department of General, Visceral, and Vascular Surgery, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

    H. Dralle

  5. Endocrine Surgery, University Hospital of Fuenlabrada, Faculty of Health Sciences, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain

    M. Duran-Poveda

  6. Endocrine Surgery Unit, Department of Surgical and Gastroenterological Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    M. Iacobone

  7. Division of Endocrine Surgery, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome

    C. P. Lombardi

  8. Department of Surgery, Ospedale S. Chiara, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    G. Materazzi

  9. Department of Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

    R. Mihai

  10. Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    G. W. Randolph

  11. Endocrine Surgery Unit, Hospital Universitari del Mar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    A. Sitges-Serra

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Dionigi, G., Barczynski, M., Chiang, F.Y. et al. Why monitor the recurrent laryngeal nerve in thyroid surgery?. J Endocrinol Invest 33, 819–822 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03350349

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