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The charts of 85 patients who had undergone an approach to the anterior cervical spine between 1966 to 1970 were reviewed. Nine of them (11 percent) showed postoperative voice changes, three of those had permanent vocal cord paralysis. The possible causes of recurrent nerve damage are discussed.
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H Heeneman (1973) studied this question.
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