Outcome of Cervical Lymph Nodes Dissection for Thyroid Cancer with Nodal Metastases: A Southeast Asian 3-Year Experience

Table 4

Complications among patients that underwent lymph node dissection.

N = 43		Types of LND, n (%)
		Central, n=8	Lateral, n=15	Dissection of both central and lateral nodes, n=20
Hypocalcaemia	Yes, n=7 (16.3)	4 (50.0)	0 (0.0)	3 (15.0)
	No, n=36 (83.7)	4 (50.0)	15 (100.0)	17 (85.0)
Vocal cord palsy	Yes, n=5 (11.6)	1 (12.5)	2 (13.3)	2 (10.0)
	No, n=38 (88.4)	7 (87.5)	13 (86.7)	18 (90.0)
Re-operative rate	Yes, n=9 (20.9)	2 (25.0)	4 (26.7)	3 (15.0)
	No, n=34 (79.1)	6 (75.0)	11 (73.3)	17 (85.0)
Death	Yes, n=4 (9.3)	0 (0.0)	2 (13.3)	2 (10.0)
	No, n=39 (90.7)	8 (100.0)	13 (86.7)	18 (90.0)

LND, lymph node dissection.