Abstract

Vocal fold paralysis is a dangerous complication of thyroid surgery that is often fatal. Therefore, intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) has recently been widely adopted and used in thyroid surgery. IONM is thought to be more helpful in identifying the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) and predicting its function in a limited surgical space than conventional thyroid surgery, but there are few reports on this. Therefore, we would like to discuss IONM during robotic or endoscopic thyroidectomy.

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