Efficacy of petrosectomy in malignant invasion of the temporal bone

We present the outcomes of lateral, subtotal, and total petrosectomies in patients with invasion of the temporal bone by specific primary cancers, with particular emphasis on survival in the advanced stages of disease. We made a retrospective study of 20 consecutive patients (squamous cell carcinoma of the temporal bone, n=11, and primary cancer of the parotid gland with infiltration of the lateral skull base, n=9) treated by total, subtotal, or lateral petrosectomy at the University Department of Otolaryngology, a tertiary referral centre, between June 2006 and December 2010.

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