Is the Use of a Drain for Thyroid Surgery Realistic? A Prospective Randomized Interventional Study

Table 4

Postoperative complications (𝑃>0.05^∗).

	Group 1	Group 2
Hematoma	2 (1%)	3 (1.5%)
Seroma	4 (2%)	3 (1.5%)
Wound infection	0 (0%)	1 (0.5%)
Suture reaction	1 (0.5%)	2 (1%)
Transient recurrent nerve praxy	1 (0.5%)	0 (0%)
Persistant recurrent nerve injury	0 (0%)	1 (0.5%)
Transient hypoparathyroidism	8 (4%)	6 (3%)
Persistant hypoparathyroidism	0 (0%)	0 (0%)

The data is presented as the number of patients with percentiles in parenthesis. A chi-square test was used for all of the complications. ∗P value is presented for the total number of complications.