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11/01/2016

Our Department of Endocrine Surgery took part in internation perspective POLT study, which was published at the Laryngoscope, last December

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS :

Intraoperative neuromonitoring identifies recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury and gives prognostic information regarding postoperative glottic function. Loss of the neuromonitoring signal (LOS) signifies segmental type 1 or global type 2 RLN injury. This study aimed at identifying risk factors for RLN injury and determining vocal fold (VF) function initially and 6 months after definitive LOS.

STUDY DESIGN :

Prospective study encompassing 21 hospitals from 13 countries.

AUTHOR INFORMATION :

  • Department of General, Visceral, and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale), Germany.
  • Division of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Department for Endocrine Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
  • Department of Endocrine Surgery, 3rd Chair of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
  • Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
  • Thoracic and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Department of Endocrine Surgery, Central Clinic of Athens, Athens, Greece.
  • Department of Surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
  • Endocrine Surgery Section, Clinic of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany.
  • Department of Surgery, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
  • Department of General Surgery, University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
  • Department of Surgery, University Hospital "Virgen Macarena", Seville, Spain.
  • Department of Endocrine Surgery, University Hospital of Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
  • Department of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
  • Department of General, Gastroenterological and Endocrine Surgery, Medical University Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.
  • Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
  • Department of General, Viszeral and Thoracic Surgery, Bundeswehr Hospital, Berlin, Germany.
  • Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Unit, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Fondazione G. Pascale, Naples, Italy.
  • Department of General Surgery, "Principe de Asturias" University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
  • Department of General and Endocrine Surgery, OLV Clinic Aalst, Aalst, Belgium.

For more information please visit the site : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26667156