Multidisciplinary Management of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injury After Transhiatal Esophagectomy.

The primary outcome was confirmed recurrent laryngeal nerve injury via laryngoscopy and postoperative hoarseness.

Postoperative hoarseness occurred in 43.7% (n = 59) of patients, while recurrent laryngeal nerve injury was confirmed in 11.9% (n = 16), which falls within the reported national average.

Notably, only 44.1% of symptomatic patients completed an ENT referral.

Mean specialty follow-up for the intervention group was 20.8 months.