ea0041ep974 | Thyroid (non-cancer) | ECE2016
Kohnen Bianca
, Schurmeyer Christina
, Schurmeyer Thomas H
, Kress Peter
Methods: To evaluate factors influencing the relative risk (RR) for vocal fold paralysis we analyzed 3019 patients (69.5% female) having surgery for benign thyroid diseases (58.7% nodular goiter, 17.5% inactive nodes, 16.3% thyroid autonomy, 6.5% Graves disease). Operations were performed with intraoperative neuromonitoring by general surgeons (GS, n=1637) or physicians specially trained for ENT (n=1382). 19.2% of the procedures were carried out by resi...