Table 1.
Patients demographics.
| No. (%) | Total Patients (n = 425) |
HB IV (n = 34) |
HB V (n = 22) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (Years, Mean, Range) | 46.7 (12–86) | 47.4 (14–84) | 63.9 (36–82) | |
| Gender | Male | 254 | 24 | 16 |
| Female | 171 | 10 | 6 | |
| Pathology | Benign tumors | 352 | 29 | 20 |
| Malignant tumors | 73 | 5 | 2 | |
| Tumor subsite | Superficial to the facial nerve | 293 | 21 | 7 |
| Deep to the facial nerve | 47 | 6 | 6 | |
| Superficial and deep location | 85 | 7 | 9 | |
| Extent of surgery | Extracapsular dissection | 184 | 7 | 1 |
| Partial parotidectomy | 122 | 9 | 3 | |
| Superficial parotidectomy | 73 | 15 | 7 | |
| Total parotidectomy | 46 | 3 | 11 | |