Energy based devices and recurrent laryngeal nerve injury: the need for safer instruments

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Gianlorenzo Dionigi. Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2009 May.

. 2009 May;394(3):579-80; author reply 581-6.

doi: 10.1007/s00423-008-0454-8. Epub 2008 Dec 24.

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