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Published in final edited form as: Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2009 Mar;140(3):312–319. doi: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.12.006

Table III.

Olfactory scores in patients with and without systemic corticosteroids use.

	Systemic corticosteroid use	No systemic corticosteroid use	p-value
Normosmic (mean ± SD)
Preoperative	35.6 ± 1.3 (n=7)	35.8 ± 1.4 (n=29)	0.835
12 month postoperative	33.0 ± 6.8 (n=4)	34.7 ± 3.4 (n=32)	0.959
Hyposmic (mean ± SD)
Preoperative	27.5 ± 5.2 (n=13)	29.1 ± 4.3 (n=43)	0.369
12 month postoperative	26.3 ± 6.4 (n=6)	29.8 ± 6.1 (n=50)	0.155
Anosmic (mean ± SD)
Preoperative	10.0 ± 2.5 (n=6)	9.6 ± 1.8 (n=13)	0.859
12 month postoperative	24.0 ± 13.1 (n=5)	20.9 ± 10.2 (n=14)	0.516