Table 2.
The association between the presence of Passavant’s ridge during phonation and categorical variables (gender, etiology and defect area) were analyzed.
| Phonation | Total (n=91) |
Positive (n=72) |
Negative (n=19) |
p value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Gendea | 0.509 | ||||||
| Male | 74 | (81.3%) | 57 | (79.2%) | 17 | (89.5%) | |
| Female | 17 | (18.7%) | 15 | (20.8%) | 2 | (10.5%) | |
| Etiologya | 0.682 | ||||||
| Congenital | 10 | (11.0%) | 9 | (12.5%) | 1 | (5.3%) | |
| Acquired | 81 | (89.0%) | 63 | (88%) | 18 | (94.7%) | |
| Soft palate defects | 0.256 | ||||||
| Total | 54 | (59.3%) | 42 | (58%) | 12 | (63.2%) | |
| Median | 9 | (9.9%) | 9 | (13%) | 0 | (0.0%) | |
| Lateral | 28 | (30.8%) | 21 | (29%) | 7 | (36.8%) | |
Chi-square test.
a
Fisher's exact test. Mann-Whitney test.