Research Article
Preoperative Signs and Symptoms as Prognostic Markers in Nasal Septoplasty
Table 2
Preoperative, postoperative, and difference in VAS scores (SD) for patients with unilateral
versus bilateral
septal deviation.
| Deviation | Preoperative VAS score | Postoperative VAS score | Improvement in VAS score |
| Day | | | | Unilateral | 63.91 (19.68) | 25.88 (22.39) | 38.39 (26.34) | Bilateral | 61.84 (19.10) | 31.70 (25.24) | 30.33 (30.41) | value | 0.32 | 0.09 | | Night | | | | Unilateral | 77.25 (15.58) | 33.57 (26.46) | 43.63 (26.99) | Bilateral | 71.55 (16.90) | 34.60 (25.25) | 36.77 (29.04) | value | | 0.61 | 0.09 |
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value < 0.05, Mann-Whitney test.
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