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

Fundakowski, Christopher E; Hales, Nathan W; Agrawal, Nishant; Barczyński, Marcin; Camacho, Pauline M; Hartl, Dana M; Kandil, Emad; Liddy, Whitney E et al. · Head Neck · 2018

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"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).

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