Table 3.

Postoperative hearing results with or without use of corticosteroids

Author	Year	Corticosteroids used	Hearing improved or unchanged	Hearing deteriorated	Deaf ear
Dornhoffer	1995	Yes	13 (93%)	1 (7%)	0 (0%)
Gocea	2011	Yes	22 (85%)	4 (15%)	0 (0%)
Meyer	2015	Yes	4 (80%)	0 (0%)	1 (20%)
Jang	2015	Yes	17 (100%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
		Mean	90%	5%	5%
Quaranta	2009	No	43 (96%)	0 (0%)	2 (4%)
Ueda	2009	No	24 (89%)	3 (11%)	0 (0%)
Moon	2011	No	26 (93%)	2 (7%)	0 (0%)
Stephenson	2011	No	28 (100%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Ikeda	2012	No	35 (92%)	3 (8%)	0 (0%)
Geerse	2017	No	24 (86%)	2 (7%)	2 (7%)
		Mean	93%	5%	2%