Table 2.

The cross tables and chi-square test results of relations between different factors related to host, tumor and surgery in parapharyngeal space tumors and the incidence of cranial nerve deficits (presented are results for selected features, including all significant relations)

Analyzed factors	Host related	Tumor-related					Surgery related		Final point
	Present symptoms	Malignant type	Neurogenic type	Size > 4 cm	Size > 5 cm	Poststyloid localization	Cervical approach	Intracapsular resection	Cranial nerve deficit
Present symptoms	–	0.844	0.497	0.68	0.7	0.314	0.197	0.241	0.41
Malignant type	0.844	–	–	0.995	0.346	0.245	0.999	0.999	0.65
Neurogenic type	0.497	–	–	0.825	0.939	< 0.001***	< 0.001***	0.011**	0.013**
Size > 4 cm	0.68	0.995	0.825	–	–	0.434	0.968	0.889	0.459
Size > 5 cm	0.7	0.346	0.939	–	–	0.170	0.695	0.999	0.318
Poststyloid localization	0.314	0.245	< 0.001***	0.434	0.170	–	0.018**	0.01*	0.157
Cervical approach	0.197	0.999	< 0.001***	0.968	0.695	0.018**	–	0.999	0.001***
Intracapsular resection	0.241	0.999	0.011**	0.889	0.999	0.01*	0.999	–	0.999
Cranial nerve deficites	0.41	0.65	0.013**	0.459	0.318	0.157	0.001***	0.999	–

*p < 0.1; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01