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<jats:title>Keypoints</jats:title><jats:p>• Primary parapharyngeal space tumours are exceedingly rare.</jats:p><jats:p>• We present a series of 114 parapharyngeal space tumours, the second largest in the literature.</jats:p><jats:p>• The most frequent benign tumours were pleomorphic adenoma (34) and paraganglioma (33); the commonest malignancies were of salivary gland origin (12).</jats:p><jats:p>• The 5‐ and 10‐year survival for benign tumours was 100%.</jats:p><jats:p>• The 5‐ and 10‐year survival for malignancies was 93% and 57% respectively.</jats:p><jats:p>• The importance of long‐term follow‐up is evidently crucial.</jats:p>