Total Endoscopic Thyroidectomy with Intraoperative Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring

Table 1

Demographic parameters and surgical data.

	Control group	LNM group	P
Demographic parameters
Age (years)	30.33 ± 6.65	28.90 ± 6.53	0.21
Male (%)	7 (4.5%)	4 (3.2%)	0.76
Female (%)	149 (95.5%)	120 (96.8%)
USG findings
Volume of treated thyroid (mL)	14.05 ± 8.57 (2.91–28.06)	13.31 ± 9.02 (2.53–29.01)	0.48
Dominant nodule diameter (cm)	1.81 ± 0.84 (0.4–3.5)	1.69 ± 0.87 (0.3–3.8)	0.23
Techniques employed
Hemithyroidectomy (%)	127 (81.4%)	92 (74.2%)	0.15
Total thyroidectomy (%)	29 (18.6%)	32 (25.8%)
Duration of surgery (min)	39.87 ± 5.39	40.77 ± 4.42	0.13
Postoperative follow-up by fibrolaryngoscope
Transient RLN injury	14	2	<0.01
Normal vocal cords condition	171	154

USG: ultrasonography; RLN: recurrent laryngeal nerve; LNM: laryngeal nerve monitoring.
Fisher’s exact test.
The number of nerves at risk, not the number of patients, was counted.