Fahri Yetişir, Alper Bilal Özkardeş, Halit Ziya Dündar, Bozkurt Birkan, Ahmet Burak Çiftci, Mehmet Kılıç

Clinic of General Surgery, Ministry of Health Ankara Etlik Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

Abstract

Injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve is a serious complication in thyroid and parathyroid surgery. The anatomy of the recurrent laryngeal nerve is variable. Non-recurrent nerve is a very rare variation of the inferior laryngeal nerve. Because of the anatomical variations of the nerve, preservation of the nerve is the optimal strategy during surgery. In this case report, we present a non-recurrent laryngeal nerve abnormality in a patient who underwent parathyroidectomy, thyroidectomy and functional neck dissection for malignant parathyroid disease. A non-recurrent laryngeal nerve was identified during nerve exploration.

Keywords: Parathyroid, non-recurrent laryngeal nerve, inferior laryngeal nerve


 

Peer Review

Externally peer-reviewed.

Author Contributions

Study concept and design - F.Y., M.K.; Acquisition of data - F.Y., B.Ç., H.Z.D.; Analysis and interpretation of data - F.Y., M.K., B.B.; Preparation of the manuscript - F.Y.

Conflict of Interest

No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.

Financial Disclosure

The authors declared that this study has received no financial support.