Table 1. Patient characteristics.

Characteristics		N
Age (min–max)		50 (22–81)
Male		6 (12.77%)
Female		41 (87.23%)
Pre-operative diagnosis	Nontoxic single thyroid nodule	43 (91.15%)
	Grave’s disease with cold nodule	3 (6.38%)
	Thyroid toxic adenoma	1 (2.13%)
Pre-operative cytology	Non-diagnostic	19 (39.60%)
	Benign follicular nodule	17 (35.40%)
	Follicular cell neoplasm	3 (6.30%)
	Atypia of undetermined significant	8 (16.70%)
Size of thyroid nodule (cm)		3.83 ± 1.77