While assisting a surgeon excising a malignant thyroid gland, the surgeon asks you why she is ligating the inferior thyroid artery so far from the gland

You correctly respond by stating that she is doing this to avoid injuring which of the following nerves?
A) sympathetic trunk
B) superior cardiac nerve
C) phrenic nerve
D) external laryngeal nerve
E) recurrent laryngeal nerve


Ans: E

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