Table 7.

Patients’ nasopharyngoscopic findings distributed by age

Variable	Age (in years)		Chi square	P
	<40 n (%)	≥40 n (%)
Finding
Normal	19 (32.2)	40 (67.8)	11.536	0.317
Bilateral vocal cord nodules	2 (40.0)	3 (60.0)
Left vocal cord paresis	0 (0.0)	3 (100.0)
Slough over the oropharynx & the epiglottis	2 (33.3)	4 (66.7)
Fish bone in the left vallecular area	2 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Nasal mass	4 (26.7)	11 (73.3)
Right vocal nodules	0 (0.0)	2 (100.0)
Atrophic right vocal cord	0 (0.0)	2 (100.0)
Bilateral vocal cord paresis	0 (0.0)	2 (100.0)
Laryngeal tumour	0 (0.0)	4 (100.0)
Total	29 (29.0)	71 (71.0)