Research Article
Preoperative Signs and Symptoms as Prognostic Markers in Nasal Septoplasty
Table 3
Preoperative, postoperative, and improvement in mean VAS scores (SD) for groups divided according to preoperative VAS night scores.
| | | Preoperative
VAS score
≤ 70 | Preoperative
VAS score
71–84 | Preoperative
VAS score
85–100 | Total
sample |
| | Number of patients (%) | 87 (30.5) | 108 (37.9) | 90 (31.6) | 285 (100) | | VAS day scores | | | | | | | 53.72 (12.91) | 64.76 (17.22) | 71.91 (23.29) | 63.44 (19.53) | | Postoperative | 23.64 (20.97) | 27.23 (23.94) | 30.13 (23.85) | 27.06 (23.09) | | Pre-post | 30.08 (23.05) | 37.52 (27.90) | 41.78 (29.79) | 36.58 (27.45) | | VAS night scores | | | | | | | 56.89 (12.88) | 78.00 (3.75) | 91.92 (4.96) | 75.97 (16.03) | | | 28.22 (22.90) | 32.81 (25.87) | 40.36 (28.37) | 33.75 (26.18) | | Pre-post | 28.67 (24.10) | 45.18 (26.33) | 51.55 (27.42) | 42.09 (27.55) |
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, Mann-Whitney test (significance between groups VAS ≤ 70 and VAS 85–100).
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