Table 1. Patient demographics and type of skull base pathology.

Pathology	No. of patients without deformity	%	No. of patients with deformity	%	p value
Age, y	51.27		44.73		0.08
Sex
Female	153		13		0.83
Male	151		11
BMI	29.72		28.32		0.33
Nasoseptal flap usage	128.00	42.1	24.00	100	0.0001a
Benign pathology	285	93.75	20	83.33	0.08b
Pituitary adenoma	196	64.47	12	50.00
Rathke cleft cyst	24	7.89	0	0.00
Meningioma	15	4.93	4	16.67
Craniopharyngioma	10	3.29	2	8.33
Spontaneous CSF leak	11	3.62	0	0.00
Meningocele/Encephalocele	9	2.96	1	4.17
Inverted papilloma	4	1.32	0	0.00
Benign lesion NOS	14	4.61	1	4.17
Infectious	2	0.66	0	0.00
Malignant pathology	19	6.25	4	16.67
Sinonasal malignancy	11	3.62	2	8.33
Chordoma	7	2.30	2	8.33
SNUC	1	0.33	0	0.00

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; NOS, not otherwise specified; SNUC, sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma.

^aIndicates statistical significance.

^bIndicates comparison between benign and malignant pathology.