Statistical analysis
PATHOLOGY
SPSS 23.0 (IBM Corp, Armonk, NY, United States) and GraphPad Prism 9.0 statistical software were used for data processing and statistical analysis. Patients’ characteristics, types of thyroidectomy, pathology result, intraoperative and postoperative variables were summarized through descriptive statistics. In addition, t–tests or Manne Whitney U tests were used to compare continuous variables between two groups. Fisher