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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Comparison of surgical smoke between two approaches for endoscopic thyroidectomy and open thyroidectomy

Variables

Gasless transaxillary endoscopic thyroidectomy (n = 18)

Breast approach endoscopic thyroidectomy (n = 15)

Open thyroidectomy (n = 15)

p value

Age (mean, years)

30.5 ± 9.86

27.27 ± 5.79

44.6 ± 11.36

p < 0.001

Sex

 Male

2

1

6

 

 Female

16

14

9

 

Height (mean, cm)

163.94 ± 3.84

162 ± 5.06

165.07 ± 6.03

p = 0.24

Weight (mean, kg)

61.5 ± 7.44

58.07 ± 6.73

64.53 ± 10.49

p = 0.12

Body mass index (mean, kg/m2)

23.03 ± 2.88

22 ± 1.95

23.62 ± 3.18

p = 0.27

Tumor size (mean, mm)

6.22 ± 3.04

6.07 ± 2.76

7.93 ± 4.8

p = 0.29

Operation time (mean, min)

154.83 ± 22.3

160.47 ± 17.55

99.87 ± 14.89

p < 0.001