Abstract
A 34-year young lady with a right-sided euthyroid nodule of 3 x 5 cm size for one year visited our clinic for surgery. FNAC was reported as colloid goiter. The right hemi- thyroidectomy surgery was planned. Intraoperatively while dissecting the right thyroid lobe, we could not find the right recurrent laryngeal nerve in its normal course, but we found a cord white-like structure running transversely & entering the larynx at the level of the cricothyroid muscle. We dissected it till its origin from the right vagus nerve in the neck. So, this was Non-Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve (NRLN) which is a rare anatomical anomaly of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve (RLN) which arises higher in the neck and runs a
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