title: Physiologic motion after vocal cord reinnervation: a preliminary study.
abstract: This study attempted to reestablish physiologic vocal cord motion, rather than synkinesis, to a reinnervated vocal cord. One mongrel dog underwent a division and reanastomosis of the anterior branch of the right recurrent laryngeal nerve and simultaneous separation and reimplantation of a posterior division nerve-muscle pedicle into the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle. After 21 weeks, spontaneous physiologic vocal cord movement and electromyographic (EMG) activity were recorded during respiratory obstruction and laryngeal mechanical stimulation. Acoustic measures and histologic data are also presented from the reinnervated and normal vocalis muscle and from the recurrent laryngeal nerve. This study demonstrated that physiologic vocal cord motion can be achieved after laryngeal reinnervation using this technique.
authors.affiliation: Division of Head and Neck Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine.
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Berke
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Graves
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Natividad
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004576:Electromyography; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005931:Glottis / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology; D007821:Laryngeal Muscles / Q000294:innervation / Q000601:surgery*; D007828:Laryngoscopy / Q000379:methods; D009068:Movement; D016067:Nerve Transfer; D010812:Physical Stimulation; D012009:Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012092:Replantation; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000379:methods*; D014741:Video Recording; D014826:Vocal Cord Paralysis / Q000601:surgery*; D014827:Vocal Cords / Q000294:innervation / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014828:Vocalization, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D014833:Voice Quality / Q000502:physiology