A clinical study of 76 patients with parapharyngeal space tumor

Abstract

Tumors arising in the parapharyngeal space are rare and show various complications because of its complexity. We examined 76 cases of parapharyngeal tumors that had been operated on between 1994 and 2017.
Our review identified more postoperative complications with cases in which tumors were present in the poststyloid parapharyngeal space; especially, vegal complication and Horner syndrome were commonly observed and enduring. When determining the surgical approach for patients with parapharyngeal tumor, it is important to be careful and to consider possible complications.