The anomalous position of the non-recurrent laryngeal nerve predisposes the nerve to injury during thyroidectomy. Up to a sixfold increase in intraoperative nerve injury can be resulted if they had an ...

Endoscopic thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy are advanced surgical procedures performed ... The gland is carefully dissected, separated from muscles, trachea, oesophagus, carotid artery, jugular ...

A thyroidectomy can last anywhere from about 1 to 3 hours ... Risks associated with thyroid cancer surgery include the following: The recurrent laryngeal nerve controls your vocal cords. Damage may ...

Results: Total thyroidectomy (TT ... patients with unilateral recurrent nerve paralysis and 10 (1.0%) patients with postoperative bleeding. Combined complications, such as permanent ...

A fracture of the write (distal radius) can cause a median nerve injury. This type of fracture is commonly seen in individuals with osteoporosis or those who have experienced recurrent falls.

In their current study, which has been published in the journal eLife, the researchers investigated its effect on human nerve cells that they had cultivated from stem cells. The result ...

This study presents a novel method for lung function evaluation during breathing using spatiotemporal residual recurrent neural networks (STResRNNs) based on electrical impedance tomography (EIT). Our ...

Mortality rates in young people undergoing thyroidectomy are very low (<0.1%), but a minority of patients will experience complications such as hypocalcaemia (22%) and recurrent laryngeal nerve injury ...

"We prove not only that this technology is doable but could be very effective for future clinical use and can potentially lead towards an eventual cure of recurrent infections," said the paper's ...

Thumb numbness is a symptom often attributed to a "pinched nerve" of the hand, wrist, or spine. In addition, numbness may be due to a disease or medications that cause demyelination (destruction of ...