Facelift thyroid surgery: a systematic review of indications, surgical and functional outcomes

Table 2 Surgical and functional outcomes

Types of outcomes	Subtype of outcomes	N	References
Surgical	Operative total time	12	[11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26]
	Hospital stay	10	[11,12,13,14,15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26]
	Conversion rate	6	[11, 12, 17, 19,20,21, 26]
	Drain placement	4	[11, 12, 17, 20]
	Drainage amount	4	[15, 16, 18, 23]
	Pocket dissection time	3	[11, 17, 21]
	Console time	3	[11, 13, 17, 26]
	Blood loss	3	[13, 15, 21, 26]
	Docking time	2	[11, 13, 17]
	Drain duration	2	[14, 15]
	Central neck dissection	1	[18]
	Incision length	1	[17]
Functional	Scar satisfaction	6	[13, 15, 16, 21, 23, 25]
	Subjective voice changes (physician)	2	[14, 21]
	Acoustic parameters	2	[14, 18]
	Postoperative pain	2	[16, 21]
	Neuromonitoring loss/success of use	2	[19, 24]
	Self-perceveid voice change (patient)	1	[18]
	Aerodynamic measurements	1	[18]
	Hypertrophic scaring	1	[20]

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