RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE (RLN) AND INFERIOR THYROID ARTERY (ITA) IN OUR POPULATION
| Autor: | Maqbool Ahmad, Imran Ashraf, Arslan Sharif |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, Vol 68, Iss 5, Pp 1071-1075 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0030-9648 2411-8842 |
| Popis: | Objective: To find out the relationship between recurrent laryngeal nerve(s) (RLN) and inferior thyroid artery (ITA) in patients undergoing thyroid surgery in our population. Study Design: Descriptive, cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Pak Emirates Military Hospital Rawalpindi and Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi from Aug 2008 to Dec 2014. Material; and Methods: One hundred recurrent laryngeal nerves, 50 right and 50 left were studied in 64 patients. All cases of benign goiter, malignant T1, T2 goiter, completion thyroidectomy cases on virgin side were included. Malignant T3, T4 cases, redo surgery, and large multi nodular goiter, cases in which posterior nodules have displaced the nerve (s) were excluded from the study. The course of the nerve was dissected in the thyroid vicinity and its relation with the inferior thyroid artery was recorded and photographed. All the data and special points were noted by the surgeons themselves in a register in all the cases and photographs were also taken. The data was entered and analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 16. A p-value of |
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