Most common nerve injured in ligation of inferior thyroid aery: (A) Recurrent laryngeal nerve, (B) Facial nerve, (C) Mandibular nerve, (D) Audirory nerve
Answer is A. Recurrent laryngeal nerve may pass anterior, posterior or through the branches of the aery and care is taken to preserve it. RLN is injured near the ligament of Berry when cautery or aery forceps is used indiscriminately while cutting the ligament of Berry to free the thyroid lobe. Ref: Dhingra 7e pg 382.