The Role of Immediate Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Reconstruction for Thyroid Cancer Surgery

Table 1

List of twelve cases of immediate RLN reconstruction in the present series.

Patient No.	Age	Gender	Side	UVFP before surgery	Methods of reconstruction	Follow-up, mo
1	39	F	L	3 mo	FNG	27
2	64	F	L	2 mo	FNG	36
3	82	F	L	2 mo	FNG	12
4	69	F	R	—	FNG	103
5	35	F	L	13 mo	FNG	68
6	72	M	L	3 mo	FNG	18
7	74	F	L	—	ARA	7
8	71	F	R	3 mo	ARA	40
9	61	M	R	—	FNG	38
10	86	F	L	—	DA	36
11	18	M	R	—	FNG	22
12	71	M	R	—	FNG	9

UVFP: unilateral vocal fold paralysis, FNG: free nerve grafting, ARA: ansa cervicalis to RLN anastomosis, and DA: direct anastomosis.