Endoscopic Sinus Surgery with Antrostomy Has Better Early Endoscopic Recovery in Comparison to the Ostium-Preserving Technique

Table 1

Characteristics of patients	Preoperative	Postoperative 9 months
	𝑛=30	𝑛=29
Age, years:
median	50
range	21–66
Number of males (%)	10 (33.3)	10 (34.5)
Number of patients with allergic rhinitis (%)	17 (56.7)	17 (58.6)
Number of patients with asthma (%)	10 (33.3)	10 (34.5)
Number of patients with nasal polyps (%)	0	1 (3.4)
Smokers (%)	8 (26.7)	7 (24.1)
Number of patients without opening of the ethmoid bulla on both sides (%)	5 (16.7)	4 (13.8)
No. of patients using:
Antihistamine (%)	2 (6.7)	1 (3.4)
intranasal corticosteroids (%)	8 (26.7)	6 (20.7)
Both (%)	4 (13.3)	3 (10.3)