The Laryngoscope
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Multicenter Study
Superior laryngeal nerve quantitative intraoperative monitoring is possible in all thyroid surgeries.
To report normative electromyography (EMG) data on the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve (EBSLN) and to compare this to analogous data of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) and vagus nerve (VN) during intraoperative neural monitoring (IONM) using both the standard monopolar stimulator probe and a novel bipolar stimulator probe. ⋯ 4.