Mann-Whitney U test (further surgery vs no further surgery age, VAS preoperative, VAS postoperative, EQ-5D-5L) and Fisher exact test (further surgery vs no further surgery gender and opioid use).
| Patient Characteristics | No Further Surgery (n = 10) | Further Surgery (n = 6) | P Value |
| Gender, male:female | 4:6 | 4:2 | 0.94 |
| Age at surgery, y, mean | 41 | 44 | 0.91 |
| VAS preoperative, mean | 9.6 | 9.5 | 1.0 |
| VAS postoperative, mean | 1.8 | 5.3 | 0.004 |
| Postoperative opioid use, % | 0% | 83% | 0.042 |
| Quality of life, mean | 0.81 | 0.45 | 0.002 |
Abbreviations: EQ-5D-5L, EuroQol 5-Dimension 5-level instument; VAS, visual analog scale.
Note: Boldface indicates statistically significant findings.