Table 1 The literature regarding preoperative recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) palsy in patients undergoing surgery for benign thyroid disease [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]
Ref no. | Year | 1st author | Country | N | Sex | RLNP side | Intraoperative RLN preservation | Postoperative vocal cord motion recovery rate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M | F | R | L | Yes | No | ||||||
[1] | ### | Greisen, O | Denmark | 5 | NA | NA | 5 | 0 | 20% (1/5) | ||
[2] | ### | Rowe-Jones, JM | USA | 22 | NA | 13 | 9 | 22 | 0 | 89.5% (17/19)a | |
[3] | ### | Fenton, JE | USA | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 100% (3/3) |
[4] | ### | Collazo-Clavell, ML | USA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% (1/1) |
[5] | ### | Steurer, M | Austria | 3 | NA | NA | NA | NA | |||
[6] | ### | Chiang, FY | Taiwan | 1 | 1 | 0 | NA | 1 | 0 | 100% (1/1) | |
[7] | ### | Randolph, GW | USA | 1 | NA | NA | 1 | 0 | NA | ||
[8] | ### | Schlosser, K | Germany | 4 | NA | NA | 4 | 0 | 25% (1/4) | ||
[9] | ### | Wang, CC | Taiwan | 8 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2b | 25% (2/8) |
[10] | ### | Moorthy, R | UK | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 40% (2/5) |
[11] | ### | O'Duffy, F | Ireland | 6 | NA | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 100% (6/6) | |
[12] | ### | Xin, J | China | 28 | NA | NA | 28 | 0 | 100% (28/28) | ||
[13] | ### | Kay-Rivest, E | Canada | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | NA | NA | |
[14] | ### | Birben, B | Turkey | 5 | NA | NA | NA | NA | |||
[15] | ### | Oscé, H | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% (1/1) |
[16] | ### | Li, WH | China | 18 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 2 | 88.9% (16/18) |