Table 4.

Details of the 7 patients with thyrotoxic periodic paralysis who eventually underwent surgery/total thyroidectomy.

Patient number	Sex/age (years)	Surgical indication	Number of thyrotoxic relapses before surgery	Weight of excised thyroid gland (g)	Operating time (minutes)	Blood loss (mL)	Hospital stay (days)	RLN injury	Postoperative hypocalcemia
1	M/31	Patient preference	2	40	69	10	2	nil	nil
4	M/25	Patient preference	2	86	151	200	2	nil	nil
8	M/24	Patient preference	1	45	58	10	2	nil	nil
13	M/45	Large goiter	0	125	273	300	3	nil	nil
14	F/26	Patient preference	0	36	165	5	2	nil	nil
15	M/32	Patient preference	0	33	90	3	2	nil	nil
16	M/39	Large goiter	0	78	144	60	3	nil	nil

RLN: recurrent laryngeal nerve.