title: [Surgery of infratemporal fossa tumors].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the effects of surgical approach on tumor with advanced infratemporal fossa.
  
  
  METHODS
  Four different kinds of surgical approaches were selected and used according to preoperative clinical and radiographic findings and its invading structures.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The survival rate according to Kaplan-meire showed that the two years survival rate for benign tumor were 100%, but malignant tumor were 47.1%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Surgery of the infratemporal fossa tumors appears to be safe and complete removal of the tumor invading lateral skull bone and its surrounding structures is necessary. The adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy are worth while procedure for postoperative of malignant tumors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou 221002.
authors.forename: Yongzhong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Peihua
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xuegu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Hongquan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003399:Craniotomy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020360:Neoadjuvant Therapy; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000601:surgery*