“…In addition, hypocalcemia leads to a longer hospital stay, extra medication, laboratory tests and outpatient visits, which are associated with increase in health costs. Several risk factors including old age, female sex, experience of the surgeon, identification of a greater numbers of parathyroid glands, presence of thyroiditis, surgery for intrathoracic or large goiter, hyperthyroidism (Graves' disease), cancer, central lymphadenectomy, reinterventions have been documented for the development of postoperative hypocalcemia (11)(12)(13)(14). In our study, age, gender, hyperthyroidism, malignancy and central compartment dissection were not found to be statistically associated with the development of postoperative hypocalcemia.…”