Efficacy of intraoperative recurrent laryngeal neuromonitoring during surgery for esophageal cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To evaluate the efficacy of intraoperative neuromonitoring in identifying recurrent laryngeal nerves and decreasing the incidence of nerve injury in minimally invasive esophagectomies for esophageal cancers.

Methods

A total of 167 minimally invasive esophagectomy patients were retrospectively reviewed. They were divided into intraoperative neuromonitoring (n = 84) and no intraoperative neuromonitoring (n = 83) groups, based on whether or not intraoperative neuromonitoring was used during surgery. We compared short-term surgical outcomes and incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy between the two groups before and after propensity score matching. The association between the loss of signal and recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy was also evaluated.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Takeda S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7832964 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature