Table 3.

Nasal symptoms and complications in the postoperative follow-up of individuals submitted to skull base surgery.

n	Nasal symptoms and surgical complications, n (%)
1	Nasal discharge	Absent 124 (86%)	Mild 13 (9%)	Severe 8 (6%)
2	Olfaction	Normal 131 (90%)	Hyposmia 11 (8%)	Anosmia 3 (2%)
3	Nasal flow	Normal 119 (82%)	Better 19 (13%)	Worse 7 (5%)
		Absent	Present
4	Taste disorder	144 (99%)	1 (1%)
5	Headache	133 (92%)	12 (8%)
6	Cranial paresthesia	143 (97%)	2 (1%)
7	Otitis Media	145 (100%)	–
8	Nasal voice	144 (99%)	1 (1%)
9	Velopalatal insufficiency	145 (100)	–
10	CSF fistula	140 (97%)	5 (4%)
11	Meningitis	134 (92%)	11 (8%)
12	Epistaxis	143 (97%)	2 (2%)