Clinical Study
Effect of Preoperative Nerve Block on Postthyroidectomy Headache and Cervical Pain: A Randomized Prospective Study
Table 1
Clinicopathologic profile of various groups.
| | Sl number | Attributes | Group I
| Group II
| Group III
| Significance ( value) |
| | 1 | Age: years (mean ± sd) | 40.7 ± 12.2 | 38.1 ± 13.2 | 40.5 ± 11.3 | 0.714 | | 2 | Weight: kg (mean ± sd) | 55.1 ± 8.7 | 62.1 ± 12.4 | 60.6 ± 10.7 | 0.100 | | 3 | Height: cm (mean ± sd) | 154.2 ± 6.1 | 155.7 ± 6.7 | 156.5 ± 4.7 | 0.482 | | 4 | Goitre: (%) | | | | | | STN | 04 (16.0) | 04 (16.0) | 03 (12.0) | | | MNG† | 16 (64.0) | 17 (68.0) | 17 (68.0) | 0.943 | | Diffuse | 04 (16.0) | 03 (12.0) | 05 (20.0) | | | Diffuse with nodule | 01 (4.0) | 01 (4.0) | — (0) | | | 5 | Goiter weight: gm (mean ± sd) | 121.8 ± 140.3 | 105.0 ± 77.1 | 140.2 ± 135.6 | 0.675 | | 6 | Duration of surgery: minutes‡ (mean ± sd) | 255.6 ± 66.5 | 253.8 ± 72.2 | 242.0 ± 46.1 | 0.965 | | 7 | Postoperative stay: days (mean ± sd) | 4.5 ± 1.0 | 4.6 ± 1.3 | 4.0 ± 1.0 | 0.06 |
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STN: solitary thyroid nodule, †MNG: multinodular goiter. ‡From the time of induction to extubation.
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