. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014 Mar 15;133(6):1759–1763. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2013.12.1092

Table 1.

Summary of cell count results in different tissues.

	Control	CRSsNP	CRSwNP	Polyp (non AERD)	Polyp (AERD)
Basophils (cells per square millimeter) Mean (SEM)	0.35(0.16)	1.06(0.22)	3.5(0.85)	7.76(1.71)^*	2.50(0.86)^†
Eosinophils (cells per square millimeter) Mean (SEM)	20.5(15.57)	14.73(5.49)	89.31(21.49)	365.1(65.46)^**	453(45)^**
Mast cells (cells per square millimeter) Mean (SEM)				25.21(3.4)	29.60(0.35)

p<0.05 for comparison by ANOVA and Newman-Keuls multiple comparison tests when compared to UT of CRSsNP and CRSwNP. And p<0.001 when compared to controls.

^**

p<0.05 for comparison by ANOVA and Newman-Keuls multiple comparison tests when compared to UT of CRSwNP. And p<0.001 compared to UT of CRSsNP and controls

^†

p<0.05 for comparison by ANOVA and Newman-Keuls multiple comparison tests when compared to non-AERD polyp.