Table 5. Postoperative complications between prophylactic and therapeutic repeat surgery

	Group A (n=36)	Group B (n=14)	p-value*
None	17 (50.2%)	9 (64.3%)	0.628
Transient hypoparathyroidism	16 (44.4%)	5 (35.7%)
Permanent hypoparathyroidism	2 (5.6%)	0 (0%)
Transient vocal cord palsy	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Permanent vocal cord palsy	1 (2.8%)	0 (0%)

Fisher’s exact test.