Re: "Routine Preoperative Laryngoscopy for Thyroid Surgery Is Not Necessary Without Risk Factors" by Maher et al. (Thyroid 2019;29:1646-1652. DOI: 10.1089/thy.2019.0145)

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
• ² Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat-Head and Neck Surgery, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, New York, USA.
• ³ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁸ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Otolaryngology, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, USA.
• ¹⁰ Division of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.