Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Shaving With a Blade During Transoral Robotic Thyroidectomy
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Identification and Protection of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve during Transoral Robotic Thyroidectomy
Published on: October 24, 2025
Moon Young Oh1, Mustafa AlMadan2,3, Dawon Park3
1Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
The Laryngoscope
|November 4, 2026
Abstract:
This video demonstrates blade-based recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) shaving during transoral robotic thyroidectomy in four patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma and tumor adherence to a functioning RLN. Controlled sharp dissection along the tumor-nerve interface enabled anatomical nerve preservation in all four cases, with normal vocal fold mobility at 3 months.
