[Combined frontal-preauricular-cervical approach for resection of huge transcranial lateral skull base tumors].

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.