Predictors of post-operative complications following thyroid surgeries at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania.

Surg Pract Sci · 2026 · PMC12768951 · PMID 41503029

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.073so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Although patients undergoing procedures lasting 120 min or longer experienced a higher complication rate (18.3 %) than those with shorter operations (11.8 %), this difference did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.073).

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