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The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology

Table 5 Preoperative and postoperative air-bone gap (ABG) at 1 and 3 months in both study groups

From: Comparative study between fascia lata and temporalis fascia in myringoplasty

ABG

Mean ± SD

t test

P value

Group A

Group B

Preoperative ABG

34.6 ± 6.7

35.3 ± 6.4

0.379

0.710

Postoperative ABG after 1 month

17.5 ± 4

17.6 ± 4.9

0.029

0.997 HS

Postoperative ABG after 3 months

8.6 ± 6.9

9.4 ± 7.5

0.457

0.654 HS

  1. ABG air-bone gap, NS non-significant (P value > 0.05), S significant (P value ≤ 0.05), HS highly significant (P value ≤ 0.001)
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