Prospective Assessment of Intraoperative Facial Nerve Monitoring in Patients Undergoing Partial Parotidectomy

Table 5

Predictors of the occurrence of facial nerve paresis following salivary gland tumor surgery. Logistic regression coefficients.

Predictors			(1)			95% CI
						LL	UL
Facial nerve monitoring	−2.58	0.57	20.43	<0.001	0.08	0.03	0.23
Sex	−0.66	0.54	1.52	0.217	0.52	0.18	1.48
Tumor size	1.21	0.64	3.54	0.060	3.34	0.95	11.73
Tumor type	0.49	0.80	0.38	0.540	1.64	0.34	7.89
Tumor location			1.42	0.492
Tumor location (1)	−0.54	1.08	0.25	0.616	0.58	0.07	4.86
Tumor location (2)	0.27	1.19	0.05	0.823	1.30	0.13	13.40
Bleeding	−0.09	0.82	0.01	0.910	0.91	0.18	4.53
Tumor wrapping	−0.42	0.52	0.63	0.426	0.66	0.24	1.84
Constant	2.06	1.47	1.96	0.162	7.85

B: regression coefficient; SE: standard error; W: Wald test value; : test probability; OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; LL: lower limit; UL: upper limit; tumor location (1): superficial lobe; tumor location (2): deep lobe.