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Table 3 Postoperative complication and type of intervention

From: Adverse events in thyroid surgery: observational study in three surgical units with high volume/year

  

Hemithyroidectomy (%)

Total thyroidectomy (%)

P value

Bleeding

Day 1

1.9

3.7

0.214

Parestesia

Day 1

0.9

8.0

0.000

 

Day 7

1.4

1.9

0.700

 

Day 30

1.4

1.3

0.269

 

6 Months

0.5

0.6

0.900

Dysphonia

Day 1

1.9

5.9

0.021

 

Day 7

6.3

3.7

0.129

 

Day 30

5.8

3.0

0.052

 

6 Month

2.9

1.3

0.139

Dysphnea

Day 7

1.0

0.9

0.273

 

Day 30

0.5

0.2

0.483

 

6 Month

1.0

0.4

0.320