Quality of Life and Surgical Outcome of Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach (TOETVA) versus Open Thyroid Surgery: Experience from a Single Center in Vietnam

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

	TOETVA (n = 60)	Open (n = 61)	value
Age (years)	35.8 + 10.3	46.9 + 11.5	<0.001
Gender
Female	54 (90)	54 (88.5)	0.793
Male	6 (10)	7 (11.5)
Education
>high school graduate	57 (95)	54 (88.5)	0.78
<high school graduate	3 (5)	7 (11.5)
Employment status
Employed	46 (76.7)	43 (70.5)	0.76
Unemployed	14 (23.3)	18 (29.5)
Marital status
Married	48 (80)	52 (85.2)	0.81
Nonmarried	12 (20)	9 (14.7)
Thyroid size (mm)	10.9 ± 9.0	11.9 ± 9.1	0.56
Pathology, n (%)
Benign goiter	14 (23.3)	16 (26.2)	0.9
Thyroid cancer	46 (76.7)	44 (72.1)
Others	0 (0)	1 (1.07)