[The results of treatment of middle ear carcinoma with radiotherapy].
We have described results of treatment patients with an extremely rare disease--a middle ear carcinoma. Through 25 years we have treated 37 patients. We recommend surgical treatment immediately supplemented by radiotherapy--because of anatomical difficulties in gaining enough histological margins. The median of survival time was 7 months in the group of palliatively treated patients and 14 months in the group of radically treated patients. Three patients had following complications: a necrosis of retromandibular space and mandibular joint, a purulent otitis media and an osteoporosis of the temporal bone.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D004428:Ear Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D004432:Ear, Middle / Q000528:radiation effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies