title: The place of 'salvage' petrosectomy.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D004428:Ear Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D004431:Ear, External / Q000601:surgery*; D004432:Ear, Middle / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local