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. 2022 Dec 1;17:197. doi: 10.1186/s13014-022-02165-5

Table 1.

Patients’ characteristics

No %
Sex
 Male 81 43.3
 Female 106 56.7
Location
 Parotid 29 15.5
 Submandibular 37 19.8
 Sublingual 16 8.6
 Minor salivary gland 105 56.1
Histologic grade
 1 76 40.6
 2 77 41.2
 3 20 10.7
 Unknown 14 7.5
Tumor size (cm)
 Median 2.5 (0.4–9.0)
T stage
 T1 52 0.5
 T2 62 27.8
 T3 32 33.2
 T4 40 17.1
 Tx 1 21.4
N stage
 N0 173 92.5
 N1 6 3.2
 N2 8 4.3
Extracapsular extension
 No 176 94.1
 Yes 11 5.9
Lymph node dissection
 Not performed 131 70.1
 Performed 56 29.9
Surgical margin
 Positive 104 55.6
 Close 57 30.5
 Negative 26 13.9
PNI
 No 95 50.8
 Yes 92 49.2
LVI
 No 156 83.4
 Yes 31 16.6
Nerve invasion
 No 173 92.5
 Yes 14 7.5
Bone invasion
 No 146 78.0
 Yes 41 21.9
Treatment type
 Surgery only 61 32.6
 Surgery + postop RT 106 56.7
 Surgery + postop CCRT 16 8.6
 Preop CTx + surgery + postop RT 2 1.1
 Preop CCRT + surgery 1 0.5
 Preop RT + surgery 1 0.5
 RT technique
3D CRT 22 17.5
 IMRT 100 79.4
 Unknown 4 3.2
RT field
 Tumor bed 47 37.3
 Tumor bed + elective LN area 75 59.5
 Unknown 4 3.2
RT dose (total, Gy)
 Median 63.0 (36.0–70.4)
Neck treatment
 Not performed 83 44.4
 Performed 104 55.6
 Aim of neck treatment
Therapeutic 14 13.5
 Elective 90 86.5
Type of neck treatment
 Elective neck dissection 29 27.9
 Elective neck irradiation 47 45.2
 Elective neck dissection + irradiation 14 13.5
 Therapeutic neck irradiation 1 0.9
 Therapeutic neck dissection + irradiation 13 12.5

PNI perineural invasion, LVI lymphovascular invasion, RT radiotherapy, CCRT concurrent chemoradiotherapy, CTx chemotherapy, 3D CRT 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy, IMRT intensity-modulated radiotherapy, LN lymph node