Table 3.

Clinicopathologic characteristics in transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy.

	INTP group (n = 200)	Control group (n = 225)	p-Value
Age (years)	41.3 ± 9.1	41.4 ± 8.9	0.893
Male (%)	75 (37.5%)	83 (36.9%)	0.896
BMI (kg/m2)	24.2 ± 3.5	23.8 ± 3.7	0.255
Max tumor size (cm)	1.42 ± 0.39	1.48 ± 0.43	0.098
Multiple lesions (%)	60 (30.0%)	79 (35.1%)	0.262
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (%)	66 (33.0%)	87 (38.7%)	0.224
Total thyroidectomy (%)	97 (48.5%)	116 (51.6%)	0.529
Bilateral CCD (%)	83 (41.5%)	112 (49.8%)	0.087

CCD, central compartment dissection; INTP, intraoperative neural tunnel protecting; BMI, body mass index.