Clinical Study
Long-Term Effect of Surgery in Graves’ Disease: 20 Years Experience in a Single Institution
Table 4
Comparison of surgical complication rates between subtotal thyroidectomy and total thyroidectomy in Graves’ disease.
| Complications | Subtotal thyroidectomy | Total thyroidectomy | | ( = 254) | ( = 96) | | % | | % |
| Complications (total) | | | | | 0.089 | No | 222 | 87.4% | 90 | 93.8% | | Yes | 32 | 12.6% | 6 | 6.3% | | Types of complication | | | | | | Postoperative bleeding requiring surgical exploration | 6 | 2.4% | 2 | 2.1% | | Transient hypoparathyroidism | 24 | 9.4% | 4 | 4.2% | | Permanent hypoparathyroidism | 1 | 0.4% | 0 | | | Recurrent laryngeal nerve injury | 0 | | 0 | | | Wound seroma | 1 | 0.4% | 0 | | |
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