Table E2.
Relationship between the neck infection and the type of mediastinal extent
| Neck infection | n | Type of mediastinitis (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type I (n = 98∗) | Type IIA (n = 20) | Type IIB (n = 61∗) | Type IIC (N = 43) | ||
| Pretracheal space | 43 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 1 |
| Vascular visceral space | 24 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Retrovisceral space | 50 | 23 | 2 | 9 | 16 |
| Pretracheal + vascular | 18 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| Vascular + retrovisceral | 37 | 14 | 1 | 9 | 13 |
| Retrovisceral + pretracheal | 12 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Pretracheal + vascular + retrovisceral | 38 | 12 | 1 | 18 | 7 |
∗
The cervical routes of 2 patients with type I and 1 patient with type IIB were not available.