Total Endoscopic Thyroidectomy with Intraoperative Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring

Table 2

Pathological findings in patients with and without intraoperative LNM.

Treated pathology	Control group	LNM group	P
Nodular goiter (%)	47 (30.1%)	35 (28.2%)	0.74
Thyroid adenoma (%)	20 (12.8%)	13 (10.5%)
DTC (%)	89 (57.1%)	76 (61.3%)
T1	84	70
T2	5	6
Nx	28	31
N0	24	17
N1a	37	28

DTC: differentiated thyroid carcinoma; T1-T2, Nx–N1a: pathological staging according to the 7th edition of the AJCC TNM staging system; Nx: no palpable cervical lymph node or no lymphadenectomy.
Suspected benign nodules that were pathologically proven malignant, not fulfilling our eligibility criteria.