Table 2. Patient characteristics, treatment, and outcome for cases of complicated lymphadenitis caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria across 13 centers in Germany and Austria*.
| Characteristics | Total | Participating center |
p value† | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | |||
| Patient sex, no. (%) | 138 | 47 | 35 | 27 | 29 | NS |
| F | 84 (60.9) | 29 (61.7) | 21 (60) | 15 (55.6) | 18 (62.1) | NS |
| M |
54 (39.1) |
18 (38.3) |
14 (40) |
12 (44.4) |
11 (37.9) |
NS |
| Median patient age, mo |
28 |
28 |
27 |
27 |
37 |
NS |
| Treatment, % | ||||||
| Surgery | 94 | 100 | 91 | 89 | 92 | NS |
| Complete extirpation | 49 | 48 | 69 | 42 | 32 | 0.03 |
| Antimycobacterial therapy |
44 |
62 |
21 |
30 |
55 |
<0.001 |
| Outcome, % | ||||||
| Unfavorable | 65 | 41 | 68 | 74 | 90 | 0.006 |
| Impaired wound healing | 25 | 19 | 17 | 37 | 34 | NS |
| Facial nerve palsy |
7 |
2 |
6 |
0 |
24 |
0.002 |
| Mean risk score‡ | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.3 | 0.004 |
*Combined data from 10 smaller centers are represented in A and the 3 largest centers are represented by B, C, and D. NS, not significant. †p values are based on original count data and calculated by using the Fisher exact test. ‡Risk scores calculated by using the Kruskal-Wallis test.