North American survey and systematic review on caudal Septoplasty

Table 3 Average preoperative and post-operative NOSE scores

Author	Surgical Technique	Number of cases	Preoperative NOSE score	Postoperative NOSE score
Garcia, L. B., et al.	Grafting	10	82.7	7.4
Giacomini, P., et al. [15]	Grafting; Scoring	15	57.4*	23.7^a
Karadavut, Y., et al. [19]	Grafting	20	64.0	12.0
Kayabasoglu, G., et al. [20]	Extracorporeal	45	85.0*	25.0^a
Kim, D. Y., et al. [21]	Grafting	141	70.5	28.7
Loyo, M., et al. [24]	Extracorporeal	71	72.3	24.0
Most, S. P [26].	Extracorporeal; Grafting	12	76.6	12.9
Surowitz, J., et al. [30]	Extracorporeal	77	68.2	21.1

^aNOSE scores had to be recalculated because they were not reported according to standard NOSE score calculation within each article

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