The recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) anatomy is designed to supply function to most muscles of the larynx (voice box). It branches from the vagus nerve (cranial nerve 10) but follows an unusual pathway ...

Anatomy also sheds light. In mammals, the laryngeal nerve takes a long detour around an artery in the chest before looping upwards to serve the larynx. It cannot take a more direct path, Dawkins says, ...

Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve (RLN) injury is a complication in neck surgery ... loss of muscle tone with changes in vocal cord position and preserving both the anatomy and the voice quality of the larynx ...

Ryland Neal Spence, BA, and colleagues used a procedure-specific thyroidectomy database to assess recurrent laryngeal nerve ...

The type of laser most often used is a carbon dioxide laser. Laser surgery through the mouth is a treatment for early stage and locally advanced laryngeal cancers. This treatment might not be suitable ...

The vestibular nerve (the eighth cranial nerve) is essential for regulating balance. Sensory structures in your inner ears ...

To understand the structure of the cochlear nerve, it's best to start with the anatomy of the ear. Your ear has three main ...

A stoma is a hole (opening) made in the skin in front of your neck to allow you to breathe. It is at the base of your neck. Through this hole, air enters and leaves your windpipe (trachea) and lungs.

Review of the literature on relevant injection procedure found that injury to the sciatic nerve is associated with use of the dorsogluteal site for injection, because the sciatic nerve commonly ...

Novavax’s plans for growth outside of its COVID program have been thrown into chaos after the FDA put two of the biopharma's programs on hold in response to a case of nerve disease from a former ...