Morphology and Functional Anatomy of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve with Extralaryngeal Terminal Bifurcation

Table 2

Location of bifurcation point on the nerve segments along the cervical course of the recurrent laryngeal nerve.

RLN segments	Right RLN	Left RLN	Total
	Arterial	7 (38.9)	11 (39.3)	18 (39.1)
Postarterial	10 (55.6)	13 (46.4)	23 (50)
Prearterial	1 (5.5)	4 (14.3)	5 (10.9)
Total	18 (100)	28 (100)	46 (100)

RLN: recurrent laryngeal nerve; ITA: inferior thyroidal artery.
Numbers in parentheses are percentages.