Table 1.
Results
| Patients | Clinical Signs (Symptoms, Signs, Cranial Nerves Loss) | Diagnostic Procedures | Surgery | Postoperative Morbidity | Outcome (Recurrences, Months of Follow-Up: Average, Median, Range) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN, cranial nerve; CT, computed tomography scan; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; PCD, pericapsular dissection with cervicoparotid approach; HB, House-Brackmann; NED, no existing disease; DOC, died other cause; DOD, died of disease; AWD, alive with disease. | |||||
| 1–16 | Cervical swelling: 14 cases | CT: 3 cases | PCD: 12 cases | Tenth CN: 8 cases Tenth, twelfth | Recurrences: 0 |
| 10 females, 6 males | Pharyngeal swelling: 10 cases | CT + MRI: 13 cases | PCD + infratemporal | CNs: 1 case Ninth, eleventh | NED: 14 |
| Median age: 40 | Retromandibular swelling: 2 cases | Angiography: 16 cases Angioembolization:6 cases | A for tympanojugular paraganglioma: 4 cases | CNs: 1 case Seventh CN Grade 4 HB, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth | DOC: 2 |
| Median: 40 | Cranial nerves loss: 5 cases (Tenth CN: 2 cases; Ninth, tenth, eleventh CNs:1 case; Ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth CNs: 2 cases) | (4 with tympanojugular paraganglioma) | CNs: 1 case Seventh CN Grade 3 HB, ninth, tenth | DOD: 0 | |
| Range: 25–74 | CNs: 1 case | AWD: 0 75, 69, 9–156 | |||