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Innervation of the cricothyroid muscle by extralaryngeal branches of the recurrent laryngeal nerve

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: A major concern in thyroid surgery is possible changes in the patient's voice due to dysfunction of the laryngeal muscles. The classical understanding of the anatomy is that the cricothyroid muscle (CTM) is innervated solely by the external branch of the superior laryngea...

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Published in:Laryngoscope
Main Authors: Miyauchi, Akira, Masuoka, Hiroo, Nakayama, Ayako, Higashiyama, Takuya
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5061096/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26509739
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lary.25691
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