Research Article
The Cost of Prolonged Hospitalization due to Postthyroidectomy Hypocalcemia: A Case-Control Study
Table 1
Patients and nodule details.
| | Normocalcemic group () | Hypocalcemic group () | value |
| Sex | | | | Male | 41 (31.5%) | 10 (16.4%) | 0.027 | Female | 89 (68.5%) | 51 (83.6%) | Mean age (SD) | 48.0 (13.3) | 46.2 (15.4) | 0.412 | Cytology | | | | Benign | 56 (43.1%) | 21 (34.4%) | 0.162 | Malignant | 55 (42.3%) | 33 (54.1%) | Pathology | | | | Benign | 32 (24.6%) | 11 (18.0%) | 0.310 | Malignant | 98 (75.4%) | 50 (82.0%) |
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