title: Recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring by cricopharyngeus contraction.
authors.affiliation: Section of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8041, USA.
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mitra
mesh_terms: D004558:Electric Stimulation; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007821:Laryngeal Muscles / Q000502:physiology*; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000379:methods*; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000502:physiology; D010609:Pharyngeal Muscles / Q000502:physiology*; D012009:Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve / Q000502:physiology*; D061226:Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injuries; D013965:Thyroidectomy