Introduction: Endocrine neck surgery includes thyroid, parathyroid, and lymph node surgery. Important
complications include haemorrhage, recurrent laryngeal nerves (RLN) injury, and hypocalcaemia.
We retrospectively analysed our district general hospital (DGH) patients undergoing
endocrine neck surgery. The British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons
(BAETS) National Audit data (2017) for morbidity/mortality was used as the benchmark,
focussing on postoperative haemorrhage, hypocalcaemia and RLN complications, in order
to guide interventions to improve outcomes.
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