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HARRY F. DAVIES, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1931;13(3):435-438.

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A brief review of the innervation of the larynx will show that all of the muscles of the larynx, with the exception of the cricothyroid, which is supplied by the superior laryngeal nerve, are supplied by the recurrent laryngeal nerve, often called the motor nerve of the larynx. The recurrent laryngeal nerve, it will be recalled, has its origin in the medulla oblongata on the floor of the fourth ventricle, leaves the cranial cavity in the trunk of the vagus nerve and is contained in this nerve until it has entered the thorax; here the recurrent laryngeal nerve follows a different course on each side.

On the right side it leaves the vagus nerve just in front of the subclavian artery, winds backward around that vessel and ascends obliquely to the side of the trachea behind the common carotid artery, and either posterior to or anterior to the inferior thyroid . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Oct. 4, 1930.

Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Otolaryngology of the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Medical Science for graduate work in Otolaryngology.

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