A Surgical Technique to Avoid injury to External Laryngeal Nerve during Thyroidectomy

Abstract

The prospective study was conducted at surgical floor of Mayo Hospital, Lahore for a period of eight years. Thirty patients were included in the study. All patients having solitary nodule of thyroid underwent total lobectomy and isthmusectomy adopting a surgical technique for the safety of external laryngeal nerve. In the series external laryngeal nerve was visualized in 70% cases and in 30% cases it could not be visualized. Only two patients (developed fatigueness of voice after prolonged use postoperatively. No other complications were seen in the series.