Main description:

This textbook is designed to deliver a comprehensive up-to-date review of all aspects of recurrent laryngeal nerve and superior laryngeal nerve anatomy including surgically important anatomy, key strategic surgical maneuvers, state-of-the-art neural monitoring, preservation of recurrent and superior laryngeal nerves during thyroidectomy and surgical management. Presently, there is no other single book available, that includes all of these surgically important topics explicitly and in-depth. The book is visually oriented with color illustrations and photomicrographs embracing all aspects of recurrent laryngeal nerve anatomy including branching patterns, relationship of the nerve and the inferior thyroid artery and the non-recurrent recurrent laryngeal nerve. A new classification system for recurrent laryngeal nerve anatomy is proposed. Intraoperative neural monitoring of the nerves is also covered in detail along with new horizons and encompass a practical approach to neural monitoring right from set up, actual monitoring and clinical relevance and usefulness of the monitoring data in making surgical decisions. The current status of the field is summarized and placed in context with optimal surgical management of these nerves. All chapters are written by world class US and International experts in anatomy, surgery and nerve monitoring.
The Recurrent and Superior Laryngeal Nerves will be of great value to Otolaryngologists and General Surgeons, Endocrine Surgeons, Fellows in Endocrine, Head and Neck Surgery, General Surgery and Otolaryngology residents.

Contents:

Table of Contents

The Recurrent and Superior Laryngeal Nerves

Volume Editor: Gregory W. Randolph

Section I: Introduction

Section Editor: Henning Dralle

Ch. 1: Rates of RLN and SLN injury - Data from National Quality Registries and the literature

Neil S. Tolley

Konstantinos Chaidas

Anders Bergenfelz

Ch. 2: Laryngeal Exam Indications and Techniques

Catherine F. Sinclair

William S. Duke
Anca M. Barbu

Gregory W. Randolph

Section II: RLN Neural Anatomy

Section Editor: Gregory W. Randolph

Ch. 3: Neurologic Control of the Larynx

Gayle E. Woodson

Ch. 4: Micro-neuroanatomy of the Vagus, Superior Laryngeal, and Recurrent Laryngeal Nerves

Noah P. Parker

Rita Patel

Stacey L. Halum

Ch. 5: Intralaryngeal anatomy of the recurrent laryngeal nerve

Michael I. Orestes

Gerald S. Berke

Ch. 6: Imaging of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Jayender Jagadeesan

Gregory W. Randolph

Daniel T. Ruan

Section III: RLN Surgical Anatomy

Section Editor: Gregory W. Randolph

Ch. 7: RLN Nerve and Inferior Thyroid Crossing

Celestino Pio Lombardi

Marco Raffaelli

Carmela de Crea

Giulia Carnassale

Rocco Bellantone

Ch. 8: Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Branching

Manuel C. Duran

Jose Sanudo

Juan J. Sancho

Beata Wojtczak

Eva Maranillo Alcaide

Antonio Sitges-Serra

Ch. 9: The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve and the Tubercle of Zuckerkandl

Steven R. Bomeli

Beata Wojtczak

Hisham Abdullah

Romain E. Kania

David J. Terris

Ch. 10: The Ligament of Berry

Niranjan Sritharan

Paul M. Paddle

Samuel K. Snyder

Jonathan W. Serpell

Ch. 11: The Non-recurrent inferior laryngeal nerve

Carrie C. Lubitz

Dennis H. Kraus

Gregory W. Randolph

Richard J. Wong

Ch. 12: The Boston RLN anatomic classification system

Gregory W. Randolph

Che-Wei Wu

Gianlorenzo Dionigi

Dipti Kamani

Rahul R. Modi

Feng-Yu Chiang

Jean Francois Henry

Ch. 13: Surgical Approaches to the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Michael Singer

Emad Kandil

Ahmed Deniwar

Gregory W. Randolph

Section IV: IONM of the RLN

Section Editor: Gianlorenzo Dionigi

Ch. 14: IONM of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Gianlorenzo Dionigi

Henning Dralle

Dipti Kamani

Natalia Kyriazidis

Gregory W. Randolph

Ch. 15: Continuous Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (CIONM) of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Rick Schneider

Kerstin Lorenz

Andreas Machens<

Phuong Nguyen Thanh

Gregory W. Randolph

Henning Dralle

Section V: SLN Surgical Anatomy and Monitoring

Section Editor: Marcin Barczynski

Ch. 16: External Branch of Superior Laryngeal Nerve (EBSLN) Anatomic Classification

Marcin Barczynski

Jeremy L. Freeman

Ch. 17: Surgical approach and monitoring of the External Branch of the Superior Laryngeal Nerve (EBSLN)

Marcin Barczynski

Gregory W. Randolph

Section VI: Neural Injury

Section Editor: Feng-Yu Chiang

Ch. 18: Loss of signal in IONM and staged thyroid surgery

Kerstin Lorenz

Rick Schneider

Andreas Machens

Carsten Sekulla

Gregory W. Randolph

Henning Dralle

Ch. 19: Mechanism of Injury

Gianlorenzo Dionigi

Samuel K. Snyder

Feng-Yu Chiang

Dipti Kamani

Whitney Liddy

Natalia Kyriazidis

Ch. 20: Intraoperative Neural Injury Management: Neuropraxic Non-Transection Injury

Gianlorenzo Dionigi

Gregory W. Randolph

Per Mattsson

Ch. 21: Intraoperative Nerve Injury Management - Transection and Segmental Defects

Akira Miyauchi

Catherine F. Sinclair

Dipti Kamani

Whitney Liddy

Gregory W. Randolph

Ch. 22: Nerve Management: Invasive Disease

Dana M. Hartl

Mark L. Urken

Ilya Likhterov

Dipti Kamani

Gregory W. Randolph

Ch. 23: Postoperative Management of Unilateral RLN Paralysis

Phillip C. Song

Inna Hussain

Jean Bruch

Ramon A. Franco Jr.

Ch. 24: Postoperative management of bilateral vocal cord paralysis

Alexander Gelbard

James L. Netterville

Ch. 25: The recurrent laryngeal nerve and medical malpractice during thyroid surgery

Daniel D. Lydiatt

William M. Lydiatt

Gregory W. Randolph

Henning Dralle

Ch. 26: Postoperative Management of Superior Laryngeal Nerve Paralysis

Craig E. Berzofsky

Amy L. Cooper

Michael Jay Pitman