[Drainage in thyroid surgery--prospective randomized study]

During the period of 2003-2004 years 100 consecutive thyroid surgeries was done in the clinic. Despite of clinical diagnosis or type of surgery they were separated into two groups. The first one (43) patients with post operative drainage, and the second one (57) with no drains. Patients with neck dissections were excluded from the study. There were no hematoma or seroma in patients without drains. In the other group two of them were reoperated because of drain insertion into the operative wound in post op. The difference in mean hospital stay for the two groups of patients is not statistically significant.