Total Endoscopic Thyroidectomy with Intraoperative Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring

Table 4

Characteristics of patients stratified by thyroidectomy side (only for the control group).

	Left lobectomy	Right lobectomy	P
Age (years)	30.12 ± 6.41	30.32 ± 6.72	0.84
Male (%)	5 (7.1%)	2 (2.0%)	0.25
Female (%)	79 (92.9%)	99 (98.0%)
Volume of treated thyroid (mL)	15.06 ± 8.57 (2.91–27.59)	14.15 ± 8.43 (3.02–28.06)	0.48
Dominant nodule diameter (cm)	1.91 ± 0.83 (0.4–3.5)	1.84 ± 0.86 (0.4–3.5)	0.53
Transient RLN injury	10	4	0.04
Normal vocal cords condition	74	97

RLN: recurrent laryngeal nerve.
Fisher’s exact test.