Active surveillance in low risk papillary thyroid carcinoma

Table 1 Postoperative adverse events of thyroid surgery in a cohort of 14934 patients[28]

Postoperative adverse eventFrequency (%)	Total thyroidectomy	Lobectomy
Hypoparathyroidism (10%)
Transient	14%	0.4%
Permanent	2.2%	0.07%
Vocal cord paralysis (3.4%)
Transient	2.4%	1.4%
Permanent	1.3%	0.6%
Bilateral	0.6%	0%
Hematoma (1.2%)	1.6%	0.4%
Surgical wound infection (0.3%)	0.4%	0.13%
External superior laryngeal nerve injury	0.4%
Thoracic duct injury	0.2%
Ulnar nerve injury	0.2%
Others1	0.9%

¹Other complications: Claude-Bernard-Horner syndrome, punctate keratitis, alterations caused by neck hyperextension during surgery: vertigo, headache, nausea.