Experience of 1166 Thyroidectomy without Use of Prophylactic Antibiotic

Table 1

Patients’ characteristics (total number of patients).

Parameter	Number (𝑛=116)
Sex (𝑛=1116)	(𝑛=1116)
Male	212
Female	954
Age (yrs) (𝑛=1116)	(𝑛=1116)
11–20	29
21–30	256
31–40	372
41–50	233
51–60	208
61–70	60
71–80	9
Pathology (𝑛=1116)	(𝑛=1116)
Nodular goiter	916
Nodular papillary hyperplasia	114
Graves’ disease	45
Thyroid papillary carcinoma	71
Hashimoto’s disease	14
Medullary carcinoma	2
Parathyroidoma	4
Preoperative disease problems (𝑛=67)	(𝑛=67)
Type 1 diabetes mellitus	32
Hypertension	34
Infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis	1