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Case Reports
. 2020 Jan 10:35:9.
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2020.35.9.20843. eCollection 2020.

[A risk of thyroid surgery: the non-recurrent inferior laryngeal nerve: a clinical case]

[Article in French]
Moustapha Ndiaye  1 , Mame Sanou Diouf  2 , Abdallah Witti  1 , Mame Coumba Sarr  3 , Ciré Ndiaye  1 , Abdou Sy  4 , Malick Ndiaye  4 , Abdourahmane Tall  1
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[A risk of thyroid surgery: the non-recurrent inferior laryngeal nerve: a clinical case]

[Article in French]
Moustapha Ndiaye et al. Pan Afr Med J. .

Abstract
in English, French

Lesions of the inferior laryngeal nerve are the most devastating complications of thyroid surgery. Identifying the inferior laryngeal nerve is all the more difficult when its path is atypical. We report a case of right non-recurrent inferior laryngeal nerve detected during thyroidectomy.

Les lésions du nerf laryngé inférieur représentent les complications les plus dévastatrices de la chirurgie thyroïdienne. L'identification du nerf laryngé inférieur est d'autant plus difficile que son trajet est atypique. Nous rapportons un cas de nerf laryngé inférieur droit non récurrent découvert à l'occasion d'une thyroïdectomie.

Keywords: Recurrent laryngeal nerve; non-recurrent; thyroid surgery.

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Les auteurs ne déclarent aucun conflit d’intérêts.

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Figure 1
Le nerf laryngé inférieur non récurrent se détache du nerf vague et se dirige vers le larynx sans trajet récurrent
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