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