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Comparison of complications between the two groups.
| Author, year | RFA complication | Thyroidectomy complications | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Choking | DN | Fever | Numbness | Hoarseness | Hypothyroidism | Choking | DN | Fever | Numbness | Hoarseness | Hypothyroidism | |
| He, 2021 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| Lin, 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 |
| Song, 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 103 |
| Xiao, 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Zhang, 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Zhang, 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
RFA, radiofrequency ablation; DN, dizziness and nausea.
