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Table 8.

Volume and wound complications

Author	Year	Country	N	Volume (thyroid procedures/year)	Wound infection		Hematoma/bleeding		Seroma		Wound dehiscence
Author	Year	Country	N	Volume (thyroid procedures/year)	%	p	%	p	%	p	%	p
Thomusch [19] et al.	2000	Germany	7266	Low (< 50)	0.8	NS	NA	NA	NA	NA	0	NS
				Intermediate (50–150)	1.1		NA		NA		0.2
				High (> 150)	0.4		NA		NA		0.1
Hauch [42] et al.	2014	USA	62,722	Low (< 10)	0.005	NA	1.727	< 0.0001	0.046	NA	NA	NA
				Intermediate (11–99)	0		1.147		0.011		NA
				High (> 99)	0		0.549		0		NA
Kandil [9]et al.	2013	USA	46,261	Low < 10	0.4	< 0.0001	2.3	< 0.0001	0.1	0.22	NA	NA
				Intermediate (10–99)	0.1		1.6		0.02
				High ≥ 100	0.1		1		0.02
Meltzer [33] et al.	2016	USA	3135	Low (≤ 20)	1	< 0.05	0.4	0.25	0.6	0.58	0.3	0.40
Meltzer [33] et al.	2016	USA	3135	High (> 40)	0.3	< 0.05	0.7	0.25	0.8	0.58	0.4	0.40
Adam [11] et al.	2017	USA	16,954	Low (≤ 25)	1.1	0.05	1.6	0.006	NA	NA	NA	NA
Adam [11] et al.	2017	USA	16,954	High (> 25)	0.7	0.05	1	0.006	NA	NA	NA	NA