Incidence and Surgical Importance of Zuckerkandl’s Tubercle of the Thyroid and Its Relations with Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Table 1

The incidence of Zuckerkandl’s tubercle (ZT) in the thyroid lobes.

Operation and site	Right ZT	Left ZT	Bilateral ZT	Total
Right hemithyroidectomy	16(59)^∗			16 (59)
(𝑛=27)
Left hemithyroidectomy		6 (46)		6 (46)
(𝑛=13)
Total thyroidectomy	22 (37)	7 (12)	15 (25)	44 (73)
(𝑛=60)	37^† (62)	22^† (37)
Right lobe (𝑛=87)	53 (67)
Left lobe (𝑛=73)		28 (38)

*Numbers in parentheses are percentage. ^†Numbers includes lateral lobes of bilateral cases.