Research Article
The Cost of Prolonged Hospitalization due to Postthyroidectomy Hypocalcemia: A Case-Control Study
Table 2
Operative details.
| | Normocalcemic group () | Hypocalcemic group () | value |
| Surgery type | | | | Completion | 21 (16.1%) | 6 (9.8%) | 0.243 | Total | 109 (83.8%) | 55 (90.2%) | Neck dissection | | | | No neck dissection | 112 (86.2%) | 42 (68.9%) | 0.005 | Neck dissection | 18 (13.8%) | 19 (31.1%) | Parathyroid reimplantation | | | | No reimplantation | 115 (88.5%) | 44 (72.1%) | 0.005 | Reimplantation | 15 (11.5%) | 17 (27.9%) | Mean number of parathyroids identified (SD) | 2.3 (1.2) | 2.1 (1.2) | 0.368 |
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