Thyroidectomy continues to produce a high rate of complications. In 1989 in the UK, these accounted for 4 per cent of general surgical claims settled by the Medical Defence Union, all of which involved recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury (P. Hoyle, personal communication). RLN damage was also responsible for
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