2.MATERIAL-METHOD
Following receipt of approval from the ”Blinded for review” Medical Faculty clinical research ethical committee (no. 2021/0970), the medical records of 36 patients, 20 men and 16 women, on whom we performed septal perforation repair between 2018 and 2022 were examined retrospectively. The IDEAL reporting guideline was followed in this study4. The patients’ demographic characteristics, perforation size and etiology, and closure results were extracted and recorded. Informed consent was obtained from all patients.
The perforation dimension was determined by measuring the widest transverse diameter using a 0-degree rigid endoscope and ruler. Perforation diameters wider than 20 mm were regarded as large, those 10-20 mm in size as average, and those smaller than 10 mm as small. Patients followed-up for less than six months were excluded from the study.