Fig 1.
Flow diagram detailing the selection of patients included in the retrospective analysis.
50 patients were excluded due to combined propofol anesthesia with inhalation anesthesia (INHA), INHA other than desflurane, incomplete data, age < 20 years, and thyroid cancer other than papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Table 1.
Patients’ and treatment characteristics and clinical outcomes for overall group and matched group after propensity scoring.
Fig 2.
(A) Overall survival curves from the date of surgery by anesthesia type. (B) Overall recurrence curves from the date of surgery by anesthesia type. (C) Overall survival curves from the date of surgery by anesthesia type after propensity score matching. (D) Overall recurrence curves from the date of surgery by anesthesia type after propensity score matching.
Table 2.
Cox proportional hazards regression for recurrence: Univariable and multivariable models for overall patients.
Table 3.
Hazards ratio (95% CI) (Propofol vs. Desflurane) by cox proportional-hazards regression for mortality/recurrence: Comparisons of various models and subgroup analyses.