Table 5.
Comparison of success and failure rates according to the new staging and apnea–hypopnea index for patients undergoing extended tonsillectomy for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS).
| OSAS | Success |
Failure |
Total | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | |||
| Stage I | ||||||
| Mild | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | 0.11 |
| Moderate | 6 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 6 | 0.33 |
| Marked | 2 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.77 |
| Stage II | ||||||
| Mild | 2 | 66.6 | 1 | 33.3 | 3 | 0.64 |
| Moderate | 2 | 66.6 | 1 | 33.3 | 3 | 0.64 |
| Marked | 2 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.53 |
| Stage III | ||||||
| Mild | 4 | 40 | 6 | 60.0 | 10 | 0.54 |
| Moderate | 1 | 25 | 3 | 75.0 | 4 | 0.54 |
| Marked | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | – |
| Stage IV | ||||||
| Mild | 2 | 22.2 | 7 | 77.8 | 9 | 0.11 |
| Moderate | 2 | 66.6 | 1 | 33.3 | 3 | 0.31 |
| Marked | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.38 |
| Stages V | ||||||
| Mild | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | – |
| Moderate | 5 | 100 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | – |
| Marked | 4 | 100 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | – |
| Stages VI | ||||||
| No surgical indication | ||||||