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Computed tomography (CT) findings for a 56-year-old woman with a thyroid tumor. Plain CT shows a low-density tumor with a major axis of roughly 5 cm in the left thyroid lobe (A). On a contrast-enhanced CT image the internal portion of the tumor shows densely and uneven staining (B). The trachea is displaced to the right.
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The trachea was displaced to the right (Fig. 1).
Identification and preservation of an extralaryngeal bifurcation of the recurrent laryngeal nerve by neuromonitoring during thyroid surgery in a 56-year-old woman. A: anterior branch, B: posterior branch.
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At this point, we observed a thin band that appeared to cross the nerve (Fig. 2).