Preoperative factors for quality of life improvement after functional septorhinoplasty

Introduction Functional rhinoplasty can improve the disease-specific quality of life measured with dedicated patient-reported outcome measures like the functional septorhinoplasty outcome inventory-17 (FROI-17). Still, some patients show little or no improvement in the postoperative course. Aim of this study was the assessment of preoperative factors and their impact on postoperative improvement the FROI-17.