Long-Term Effect of Surgery in Graves’ Disease: 20 Years Experience in a Single Institution

Table 4

Comparison of surgical complication rates between subtotal thyroidectomy and total thyroidectomy in Graves’ disease.

Complications	Subtotal thyroidectomy		Total thyroidectomy
	( = 254)		( = 96)
		%		%
Complications (total)					0.089
No	222	87.4%	90	93.8%
Yes	32	12.6%	6	6.3%
Types of complication
Postoperative bleeding requiring surgical exploration	6	2.4%	2	2.1%
Transient hypoparathyroidism	24	9.4%	4	4.2%
Permanent hypoparathyroidism	1	0.4%	0
Recurrent laryngeal nerve injury	0		0
Wound seroma	1	0.4%	0