Is the Use of a Drain for Thyroid Surgery Realistic? A Prospective Randomized Interventional Study

Table 2

Operative and postoperative values of the patients.

	Group 1	Group 2	P
∗Operating time (min)	86.45(50--120)±18.93	88.80(45--120)±21.33	0.19
∗Thyroid volume (mL)	54.31(17.3--116.4)±22.48	53.72(16.8--120.4)±21.61	0.80
∗∗Postoperative sixth hour VAS	3.64(2--7)±1.06	4.95(2--8)±1.05	0.002
∗∗Postoperative first day VAS	2.08(1--5)±0.74	3.09(1--5)±0.77	0.001
∗Hospital stay (day)	1.10(1--3)±0.33	1.53(1--6)±0.80	0.04

VAS: visual analog scale. The data is presented as mean (min–max) ± SD. ∗Student’s 𝑡-test was used for assessment. ∗∗The Mann-Whitney 𝑈 test was used for assessment.