CompletedNot Applicable

Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve's Motor Function: Sometimes Motor Fibers May Also Be Located in The Posterior Branch

337 participantsStarted 2012-01

Plain-language summary

The investigators hypothesized that, sometimes the posterior branch of the recurrent laryngeal nerve may also have motor function. The investigators aimed to evaluate motor function of the branches in the branching recurrent laryngeal nerves in this study.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 80 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion criteria

✓. Patients who underwent parathyroid/thyroid surgery with intraoperative neuromonitoring ,
✓. Patients who had normal vocal cord functions preoperatively. -

Exclusion criteria

✕. Preoperative recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy,
✕. Intentional nerve transection because of cancer invasion,
✕. Assessment failure of recurrent laryngeal nerve function due to the deficiency of the intraoperative neuromonitoring equipment,.
✕. Parathyroidectomy operations that recurrent laryngeal nerves were not fully dissected.

What they're measuring

The evoked EMG potentials of the branches of the recurrent laryngeal nerves as microvolt, by intraoperative neuromonitoring.

Timeframe: intraoperative

Trial details

NCT IDNCT02493881

SponsorSisli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2014-09

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