Risk Factors for Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Palsy in Thyroid Surgery: A Single Center Experience of 1147 Procedures with Intermittent Intraoperative Neuromonitoring.

Operations for Graves' disease, thyroid cancer, and recurrent goiter have the highest risk for RLN palsy and surgeons should be alerted. The longer the operation, the higher the risk of RLN palsy. The correlation between surgery method (hemithyroidectomy vs. thyroidectomy) and RLN palsy should be carefully considered due to possible bias.