title: [Combined frontal-preauricular-cervical approach for resection of huge transcranial lateral skull base tumors].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To search into the appropriate approach for surgical treatment of the huge lateral skull base tumors.
  
  
  METHODS
  The combined frontal-preauricular-cervical approach was used in two cases with huge transcranial lateral skull base tumors occupying the parapharngeal space, infratemporal fossa and middle cranial fossa. To acquire a wide surgical exposure, the flaps of orbital-zygomatic bone and the skull bone were removed, and then the mandibula was dislocated inferiorly.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The tumors in the two cases were resected completely. The postoperative conditions of the patients were good. No cerebral spinal fluid leakage and other intracranial complications or facial morbidity were found. The occlusion was not interfered.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The combined frontal-preauricular-cervical approach may provide a potential way for the surgical treatment of the large transcranial neoplasms occupying the parapharngeal space and infratemporal fossa and the middle cranial base.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China. yingchen@jn-public.sd.cninfo.net
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Tianduo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Baogang
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rong
authors.forename: Yuanping
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Yongtuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yiqing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hanbing
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhahg
mesh_terms: D003399:Craniotomy / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D019292:Skull Base Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps