Table 1.

Characteristics of subjects.

	Control	CRSsNP	E-CRSwNP	NE-CRSwNP
Total no. of subjects	14	12	13	16
Tissue used	IT	UP	NP	NP
Age (y), mean (SD)	29 (10)	40 (14)	39 (14)	43 (14)
Asthma, (No.)	0	0	0	0
Aspirin sensitivity (No.)	0	0	0	0
Nasal steroid, (No.)	0	0	0	0
Lund–Mackay CT score, mean (SD)	-	3.7 (2.4)	9.5 (3.8)	7.7 (3.5)
Lund–Kennedy score, mean (SD)	–	1.5 (1.0)	3.6 (1.3)	3.3 (1.4)
VAS score, mean (SD)	-	13.4 (8.1)	17 (7.6)	12.4 (11.4)
Tissue dissolution, (No.)	6 (5 males)	6 (4 males)	6 (5 males)	6 (1 male)
Morphology/PCR, (No.)	8 (7 males)	11 (6 males)	11 (8 males)	9 (7 males)
Tissue extracts, (No.)	4 (4 males)	4 (4 males)	4 (4 males)	4 (4 males)