Surgical procedures for papillary thyroid carcinoma located in the thyroid isthmus: an intention-to-treat analysis.

Onco Targets Ther · 2016 · PMC5001660 · PMID 27578987

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When we compared the complication rate of the total thyroidectomy group with that of the less-than-total thyroidectomy group, although the postoperative complication rates were higher in the total thyroidectomy group, with 15 of 85 patients (17.6%) compared with two of 18 patients (11.1%) in the less-than-total thyroidectomy group, this difference did not reach statistical significance ( P =0.500).

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