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The place of ‘salvage’ petrosectomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

P. M. Stell*
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Liverpool, Royal Liverpool Hospital, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX.
J. B. Miles
Affiliation:
Department of Neurosurgery, Walton Hospital, Rice Lane, Liverpool 9.
*
Professor P. M. Stell, Ch.M., F.R.C.S., University Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Royal Liverpool Hospital, Prescot Street, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX.

Summary

Thirty-three of 58 patients with carcinoma of the external auditory meatus and middle ear were treated by radiotherapy. Nineteen patients suffered a recurrence. This proved to be unsuitable for petrosectomy in all patients with a tumour of the middle ear. A few patients with tumours of the external auditory meatus, usually of non-squamous variety, have survived for a reasonable period after ‘salvage’ petrosectomy.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1986

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