Table 5.

Symptom Incidence by Patient or Perioperative Risk Factor

Risk Factor	Redness	Swelling	Pain
Residual disease	16/27	21/27	14/27
No residual disease	12/16	13/16	4/16
	p = 0.3	p = 1	p = 0.1
Lower stage (1 to 2)	18/29	21/29	12/29
Higher stage (3 to 5)	10/14	13/14	6/14
	p = 0.7	p = 0.2	p = 1
Purely macrocystic	8/13	10/13	6/13
Microcystic and mixed	20/30	24/30	12/30
	p = 0.7	p = 1	p = 0.7
No seroma	18/30	21/30	12/29
Seroma	10/13	13/13	6/14
	p = 0.5	p = 0.04	p = 1
Age < 7	15/23	19/23	5/23
Age ≥ 7	13/20	15/20	13/20
	p = 1	p = 0.7	p = 0.006
Male	13/21	16/21	8/21
Female	15/22	18/22	10/22
	p = 0.8	p = 0.7	p = 0.8
Surgery before 2012	15/22	16/22	9/22
Surgery 2012 and after	13/21	18/21	9/21
	p = 0.8	p = 0.5	p = 1
Drain ≤2 days	23/35	26/35	15/35
Drain > 2 days	5/8	8/8	3/8
	p = 1	p = 0.2	p = 0.4

Patient and perioperative risk factors and association with postoperative surgical site symptoms during viral URIs. Fisher’s exact test used for comparisons