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Table 3 Demographics and clinical characteristics of patients with DNSA in the validation cohort

From: A novel risk score for the prediction of airway management in patients with deep neck space abscess: a multicenter retrospective cohort study

Predictors

All (n = 77)

Airway management

 

p

Yes (n = 13)

No (n = 64)

Age, median, (IQR), years

51.0 (39.7–56.5)

48.0 (40.5–56.5)

51.0 (39.0–56.8)

0.965

Sex, male, n (%)

62 (80.5)

11 (84.6)

51 (79.7)

1.000

Multispace involvement, n (%)

45 (58.4)

13 (100.0)

32 (50.0)

< 0.001

Gas formation, n (%)

25 (32.5)

9 (69.2)

16 (25.0)

0.003

Dyspnea, n (%)

17 (22.1)

8 (61.5)

9 (14.1)

0.001

Primary regions of infection

 Suprahyoid region, n (%)

52 (67.5)

12 (92.3)

40 (62.5)

0.050

 Infrahyoid region, n (%)

17 (22.1)

0 (0.0)

17 (26.6)

0.060

 Retropharyngeal region, n (%)

8 (10.4)

1 (7.7)

7 (10.9)

0.728

Laboratory test

 NEUT, median, (IQR), %

84.1 (76.1–87.6)

87.5 (84.7–91.1)

82.3 (75.0–86.4)

0.008

 PLR, median, (IQR)

189.3 (132.7–287.6)

320.7 (128.8–410.2)

172.5 (132.3–261.5)

0.028

 Albumin, median, (IQR), g/L

38.0 (32.9–42.2)

29.0 (26.9–34.9)

39.7 (34.6–42.7)

< 0.001

  1. DNSA deep neck space abscess, IQR interquartile range, NEUT% percentage of neutrophile, PLR platelet count to lymphocyte count ratio