Surgical Treatment of a Patient with a Solitary Thyroid Metastasis from Primary Sigmoid Adenocarcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review

Figure 2

The operative field after left hemithyroidectomy with resection of the left RLN. The left RLN was cut around its entry to the larynx. We then performed an ansa cervicalis-to-RLN anastomosis to reinnervate the left vocal fold. The arrows indicate the anastomosis. The asterisk indicates the trachea. The double asterisk indicates the cricothyroid muscle. RLN, recurrent laryngeal nerve.