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Fig. 2. Forest plot depicting aggregated short-term (A) and long-term (B) postoperative air-bone gap. CI 5 confidence interval; SD 5 stan dard deviation. [Color figure can be viewed in the online issue, which is available at www.laryngoscope.com.]

14.4 dB long-term ( P < 0.001 for both). As evidenced here, surgery offers significant benefits for hearing both at short- and long-term follow-up. When looking at rates of achievements of ABGs 20 dB and 10 dB, however, there were significant

air-bone gap was significantly improved compared to preoperative value at both short-term and long-term fol low-up in our cohort. A similar result was seen in the meta-analysis, for which ABGs improved from a pooled preoperative ABG of 28.9 dB to 10.3 dB short-term and

Fig. 3. Forest plot depicting achievement of air-bone gap 20 dB at short-term (A) and long-term (B) follow-up. CI 5 confidence interval. [Color figure can be viewed in the online issue, which is available at www.laryngoscope.com.]

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