Branches of the vagus (tenth cranial) nerve. The recurrent laryngeal nerves originate more caudally than the superior laryngeal nerves and follow different paths on the right and left sides. They carry efferents to all muscles of the larynx except the cricothyroid and carry sensory and autonomic fibers to the laryngeal, pharyngeal, tracheal, and cardiac regions.
    

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The anatomy and physiology of the recurrent laryngeal nerves / by Franklin H. Hooper.

Die Lage des Nervus recurrens nervi vagi zur Arteria thyreoidea inferior / von K. Taguchi.

On the laryngeal symptoms which result from the pressure of an aneurysmal or other tumour upon the vagus and recurrent nerves / [George Johnson].

Paralysis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve : a survey of 235 cases / by A.B. Smith, V.F. Lambert and H.L. Wallace.

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Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

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The anatomy and physiology of the recurrent laryngeal nerves / by Franklin H. Hooper.

Die Lage des Nervus recurrens nervi vagi zur Arteria thyreoidea inferior / von K. Taguchi.

On the laryngeal symptoms which result from the pressure of an aneurysmal or other tumour upon the vagus and recurrent nerves / [George Johnson].

Paralysis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve : a survey of 235 cases / by A.B. Smith, V.F. Lambert and H.L. Wallace.