The surgeon performing a thyroidectomy should remember all except
Recurrent laryngeal nerve supplies all intrinsic muscles of larynx except cricothyroid muscle which is supplied by superior laryngeal nerve (external laryngeal branch).
Recurrent laryngeal nerve is closely related to the inferior thyroid artery
Superior laryngeal nerve supplies the cricothyroid muscle
Recurrent laryngeal nerve supplies all the intrinsic muscles of the larynx
Inferior thyroid artery is long and tortuous