CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS OF PATIENTS WITH MIDDLE EAR CANCER

We present treatment results of 7 patients with middle ear cancer (3 men and 4 women) having been treated in Head and Neck Tumors Department of Rostov Research Oncologic Institute within the period 2003-2013. All patients had squamous cell cancer. After preoperative radiotherapy the patients were operated: resection of temporal bone and external acoustic meatus. In three cases with cervical metastases lymphodissection IIA-B, III level was performed. Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy was prescribed. As a result of treatment 4 patients survived 2 years and 2 patients survived 3 years. A clinical case is presented. The patient aged 42, with advanced middle ear cancer underwent preoperative radiotherapy with subsequent radical operation, i.e. subtotal resection of temporal bone with exposure of facial nerve, sigmoid sinus and bulb of jugular vein. The patient is under surveillance during 5 months without continued tumor growth.

middle ear cancer, resection of temporal bone