recurrent laryngeal nerve

Origin: vagus nerves Branches: 1) cardiac, tracheal & esophageal branches 2) terminates as the inferior laryngeal nerve Innervation: 1) lateral cricoarytenoid muscle 2) oblique arytenoid muscle 3) posterior cricoarytenoid 4) thyroarytenoid 5) thyroepiglottic muscle 6) transverse arytenoid muscle 7) vocalis muscle 8) it supplies cardiac, tracheal & esophageal branches of the vagus nerve Pathology: Injury: - associated with hoarseness. Course: - a branch of the vagus nerve curving upward, on the right side round the root of the subclavian artery, on the left side round the arch of the aorta, then passing upward behind the common carotid artery, between the trachea & the esophagus to the larynx

Related

inferior laryngeal nerve vagus nerve (CN X)

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995