Table I.

Characteristics of the two groups of patients who underwent total thyroidectomy with (HF-G) and without (CL-G) Ultrasonic Harmonic FOCUS dissecting shears

Parameter	HF-G	CL-G	Value of p
Sex (male/female)	7/34	8/33	0.72†
Age [years]	41.1 ±7.5	42.0 ±7.5	0.27‡
Thyroid volume [ml]	47.5 ±17.6	50.9 ±15.9	0.44‡
Preoperative diagnosis:
Multinodular non-toxic Goiter	41	41	1.0†

Values represent mean ± standard deviation, unless otherwise indicated.

^†χ² test

^‡t-test