VAS
Overall, endoscopic procedures have statistically significant lower VAS pain threshold outcomes when compared against the microscopic procedures on post- operative day one, two, three and seven (Table 2). On subgroup analysis, pain scores were lower for the endoscopic group at day one where procedures were carried out for reconstructive reasons (median VAS 1 [0;9] mm, n=27) compared to the microscopic group (median VAS 80 [45;86.5] mm, n=3). This was also the case at day two (endoscopic median VAS 1 [ 0;6.5] mm, n=27, vs. microscopic median VAS 48 [34;55.5] mm, n=3) (Figure 1, Supplementary Table 1). This difference did not reach significance at days three and seven (Figure 1, Supplementary Table 1). For the non-reconstructive procedures at all time points, this difference did not reach significance, although there was a trend towards higher pain scores for the microscopic procedures (Figure 1, Supplementary Table 1).