Table 4. The incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy and of hypoparathyroidism (transient and permanent) after different operations for benign, euthyroid nodular goiter.

Study	Thyroidectomy	Dunhillprocedure	Bilat. subtotalresection
Barczynski 2010 (600 pts.) Rec. laryngeal n. palsy (ns) –transient –permanent Hypoparathyroidism –transient –permanent	200 pts. 5.5% 1% 11% 0.5%	200 pts. 4% 0.8% 4% 0%	200 pts. 2% 0.5% 2% 0%
Thomusch 2003 (5195 pts.) Rec. laryngeal n. palsy (ns) –transient –permanent Hypoparathyroidism –transient –permanent	88 pts. 4.5% 2.3% 21.6% 10.5%	527 pts. 2% 1.4% 8.7% 2.1%	4580 pts. 1.7% 0.8% 6.3% 0.9%

Findings of the single prospective, randomized trial published to date by a specialized center (Barczynski [13]) and the single German cross-sectional study to date (Thomusch [23] with data on complication rates of each of the three common types of resective surgery

bilat., bilateral; ns, not significant; rec. laryngeal n., recurrent laryngeal nerve