Figure 1.
Transcartilage intraoperative neuromonitoring (TC-IONM) performed in a 17-year-old female who had received total thyroidectomy and bilateral central neck dissection of a papillary thyroid carcinoma. Paired 12 mm standard needle electrodes (white asterisk, Medtronic Xomed, Jacksonville, FL, USA) were inserted obliquely into each side of the perichondrium of thyroid cartilage. CTM= cricothyroid muscle.
