Is craniocaudal dissection of recurrent laryngeal nerve safer than lateral approach: a prospective randomized study comparing both techniques by using continuous intraoperative nerve monitoring.

The craniocaudal approach to the RLN is safer than the lateral approach in the RLNs with entrapment at the LOB accompanied by other features, such as TZ, extralaryngeal branching, hyperthyroidism, ATD, or high thyroid lobe volume.