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Recurrent laryngeal nerve
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recurrent laryngeal nerve
n.
A branch of the vagus nerve that supplies the cardiac, tracheal and esophageal branches and terminates as the inferior laryngeal nerve.

Recurrent laryngeal nerve
One of two offshoots of the vagus nerve that connect to the larynx. It is located below the larynx.


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The surgeon was appropriately concerned for local anesthetic spread to the recurrent laryngeal nerves, and therefore ruled out the use of superficial cervical plexus blockade.
Flexible and rigid endoscopy demonstrated right vocal fold hypomobility; this finding was confirmed by electromyography, which revealed a 30% reduction in recruitment in both the superior and recurrent laryngeal nerves on the right.
Even though the recurrent laryngeal nerves usually course deep to the thyroid, vocal fold paralysis is not common in patients with benign thyroid disease (2) or well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma.
 
 
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