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. 2020 Sep 24;405(8):1091–1099. doi: 10.1007/s00423-020-01990-0

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Scheme of intraoperative nerve monitoring (IONM) signals from the right vagal nerve (VN) and recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN). IONM superior to the separation of the RLN from the VN (red arrow) leads to typical VN signals (1). The signal resulting from RLN stimulation (2) showed insignificantly lower amplitudes than the signal resulting from VN stimulation (1). VN stimulation after the separation from the RLN does not lead to measurable signals in IONM (3). Mean signal characteristics resulting from the current investigation are presented. Abbreviations: E esophagus, IONM intraoperative nerve monitoring, VN vagal nerve, RLN recurrent laryngeal nerve, 2R lymph node station 2R according to [24], 4R lymph node station 4R according to [24], 7 lymph node station 7 according to [24]