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This study confirms the feasibility of transcutaneous recording of evoked laryngeal EMG during IONM. Although this study confirms the stability and accuracy of the transcutaneous approach, it also revealed the need for new electrode designs to improve EMG amplitudes before practical clinical application of this approach.

N/A. Laryngoscope, 127:1724-1729, 2017.

Background:Intraoperative neural monitoring (IONM) has gained widespread acceptance as an adjunct to the gold standard of visual identification of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) during thyroid surgery. Currently, laryngeal electromyography (EMG) recording during IONM is almost always performed using endotracheal tube (ETT) surface electrodes placed adjacent to vocal folds originating from the inner surface of the thyroid cartilage (TC). Therefore, we hypothesized that surface recording electrodes placed on the outer surface of the TC should enable access to the EMG response of the vocal folds during IONM. The aims of this Thyroid