Meet the recurrent laryngeal nerve - a textbook example of evolutionary inefficiency. In this video, I explain why this ...

The recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) anatomy is designed to supply function ... is innervated from both sides instead of by either the right or left nerve The RLN carries sensory information ...

The recurrent laryngeal ... of the vagus nerve down to the chest, the RLN curves back up in the neck. Because it branches off the vagus nerve near the heart, on the left side of the chest rather ...

Given difference in length between right and left recurrent laryngeal nerves ... at 0.5 MAC for both sides (12 for stimulation of left nerve and six for stimulation of right nerve) revealed ...

Both superior laryngeal nerves and the right recurrent laryngeal nerve of the transplant were sutured to those of the patient. The patient's left recurrent laryngeal nerve was not identified.

Left main coronary artery and left recurrent laryngeal nerve compression have been described. Tracheobronchial compression from pulmonary arterial dilatation is rare in adults, and there are no ...