Vol.98 No.3 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 98 No. 3 March 2005
A Case of the Non-recurrent Laryngeal Nerve
Nobuo Takagi, Masahiko Nishimura, Mami Inoue,
Fumihiko Sado, Shigeyasu Ishizaka and Keigo Tatemoto
(Kyoto First Red Cross Hospital)
A case of right non-recurrent laryngeal nerve recognized during surgery for thyroid cancer is reported. The nerve passed directly and transversely from the right vagus nerve to the larynx. This anomaly of the recurrent nerve is known to be associated with an anomalous origin of the right subclavian artery from the aortic arch. In a case in which the recurrent laryngeal nerve cannot be found, we must always be aware of the possibility of non-recurrent laryngeal nerve during surgery.
Key words : non-recurrent laryngeal nerve, thyroid cancer surgery, right subclavian artery