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).