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Nasal Cytology: A Comparative Study of Two Different Techniques of Processing—Smeared versus Cytocentrifuged Slides
Table 1
Demographics of patients.
| | Number (%) | Sex, males (%) | Age, years | Smoke, yes/ex (%) | SNOT-22 |
| All patients | 105 | 39 (37.1%) | 57.4 ± 13 | 25 (23.8%) | 38.6 ± 20.0 | Normal controls | 10 (9.5%) | 2 (20.0%) | 61.3 ± 11.9 | 2 (20.0%) | 21.5 ± 10.7 | AR | 17 (16.2%) | 6 (35.3%) | 58.4 ± 13.6 | 3 (17.6%) | 48.3 ± 20.1 | NARNE/NARES | 18 (17.1%) | 7 (38.9%) | 48.5 ± 16.7 | 3 (16.7%) | 40.6 ± 9.9 | Rhinitis sicca | 14 (13.3%) | 0 | 63.1 ± 10.9 | 3 (21.4%) | 34.3 ± 12.2 | CRSwNP | 30 (28.6%) | 13 (43.3%) | 58.9 ± 12.6 | 8 (26.7%) | 42.3 ± 22.9 | CRSsNP | 16 (15.2%) | 11 (68.8%) | 57.3 ± 12.1 | 6 (37.5%) | 34.2 ± 24.5 |
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AR: allergic rhinitis; NAR: nonallergic rhinitis; NARNE: nonallergic rhinitis with neutrophils; NARES: nonallergic rhinitis with eosinophils; CRSWNP: chronic rhinosinusitis with polyps; CRSsNP: chronic rhinosinusitis without polyps.
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