Effect of Prophylactic Central Lymph Node Dissection on Locoregional Recurrence in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma

Table 3

Postoperative complications.

	PCLND	NLND	value
	N = 1487	N = 100
Postoperative complications			0.765
Hematoma	7 (0.5%)	0
Temporary parathyroid hypothyroidism	96 (6.5%)	6(6.0%)
Temporary recurrent laryngeal nerve injury	55 (3.7%)	4(4.0%)
Permanent recurrent laryngeal nerve injury	5 (0.3%)	0

PCLND, prophylactic central lymph node dissection; NLND, no lymph node dissection.