Acoustic rhinometry and video endoscopic scoring to evaluate postoperative outcomes in endonasal spreader graft surgery with septoplasty and turbinoplasty for nasal valve collapse

Table 1 Preoperative and postoperative mean values for measured variables

Variable	Preoperative (N = 17)			Early postoperative (N = 14)			Intermediate postoperative (N = 12)
Variable	Mean	Range	SD	Mean	Range	SD	Mean	Range	SD
INV collapse grading	2.23	1–3	0.67	1.37	1–2.5	0.46	1.54	1–3	0.70
INV cross-sectional area (cm²)	0.519	0.02–1.10	0.278	0.614	0.19–1.32	0.277	0.552	0.17–1.01	0.230
NOSE	14.0	10–20	3.3	5.9	2–10	2.9	7.7	0–15	4.5
SNOT-22	34.1	13–71	16.5	16.9	1–55	15.4	22.7	1–57	19.8

SD standard deviation, INV internal nasal valve, NOSE nasal obstruction symptom evaluation scale, SNOT sino-nasal outcome tool

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