Table 3.
SF-36 scores in patients with benign functional and benign non-functional adrenal tumours before and at 1 year after adrenalectomy respectively. Median and range are shown
| Preoperative | Postoperative | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Functional (n = 29) | Non-functional (n = 15) | p valueb | Functional (n = 29) | Non-functional (n = 15) | p valueb | |
| Physical functioning | 60 (10–100) | 85 (10–100) | 0.123 | 80 (10–100) | 85 (0–100) | 0.236 |
| Role-physical | 0 (0–100) | 75 (0–100) | 0.010a | 100 (0–100) | 100 (0–100) | 0.507 |
| Bodily pain | 41 (10–100) | 84 (0–100) | 0.016a | 84 (21–100) | 75 (0–100) | 0.602 |
| General health | 47 (0–87) | 67 (5–97) | 0.089 | 67 (0–100) | 76 (20–100) | 0.287 |
| Vitality | 35 (0–100) | 60 (0–95) | 0.047a | 70 (5–100) | 55 (0–90) | 0.775 |
| Social functioning | 62.5 (0–100) | 75 (0–100) | 0.290 | 100 (0–100) | 87.5 (0–100) | 0.565 |
| Role-emotional | 33.3 (0–100) | 66.7 (0–100) | 0.398 | 100 (0–100) | 100 (0–100) | 0.867 |
| Mental health | 52 (0–100) | 76 (0–92) | 0.219 | 84 (20–100) | 76 (4–100) | 0.718 |
| Physical Component Summary | 33.1 (17.1–62.9) | 44.2 (20.0–66.5) | 0.018a | 47.6 (19.8–57.3) | 49.5 (18.9–68.4) | 0.402 |
| Mental Component Summary | 33.8 (11.8–62.0) | 47.1 (12.3–56.3) | 0.629 | 52.7 (16.4–59.8) | 50.0 (15.0–59.6) | 0.357 |
aClinically significant difference ≥ 5 points [29]
bp value assessed with Mann-Whitney U test