Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in Thyroid Surgery

Yu V Ivanov,I D Korniletskiy,S G Anaskin,D Yu Agibalov,E A Komochkina

doi:10.18502/ken.v3i2.1802

Abstract

Highlights

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of patients with thyroid gland pathology, and in particular, diffuse-toxic goiter
How to cite this article: Ivanov Yu.V., Anaskin S.G., Korniletskiy I.D., Agibalov D.Yu., and Komochkina E.A., (2018), “Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in Thyroid Surgery” in The 2nd International Symposium on Physics, Engineering and Technologies for Biomedicine, KnE Energy & Physics, pages Page 119
The purpose of the work was to evaluate the efficiency of intraoperative neuromonitoring as a means for preventing damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve when performing operations on the thyroid gland with diffuse-toxic goiter

Summary

Introduction

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of patients with thyroid gland pathology, and in particular, diffuse-toxic goiter. One of the severe complications of thyroid gland surgery is the damage to a recurrent laryngeal nerve The frequency of this complication varies considerably, accounting for 0.2-22% of all observations and significantly increases with repeated operations [5, 7, 8, 11, 13]. This variability in the frequency of damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve is due to the medical specialist diagnosing it (surgeon or otolaryngologist), diagnosis time, the amount of available information about the patient (use of the results of clinical examination or instrumental methods of examination, and the nature of the damage itself: unilateral or bilateral, transient or resistant). The purpose of the work was to evaluate the efficiency of intraoperative neuromonitoring as a means for preventing damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve when performing operations on the thyroid gland with diffuse-toxic goiter

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