Table 4.

Surgical Details

Laterality
Unilateral	40 (93.0%)
Bilateral	3 (7.0%)
Extent
Submandibular gland excision	8 (18.6%)
Floor of mouth resection	14 (32.6%)
Parapharyngeal space	24 (55.8%)

Surgical details for patients in the series. Given that most patients had a stage 3 or lower lesion, it is expected that those associated surgeries would be unilateral. However, there was variety in the extent of surgery and anatomic areas in need of dissection. These data points were evaluated as predictors of the postoperative symptomatic course