Clinical Study of Parapharyngeal Space Tumors

Abstract

Ten cases of parapharyngeal space tumor treated between 1977 and 1987 were clinically studied. All tumors were removed surgically. Various approaches were used; peroral excision, cervical approach, transparotid-cervical approach, and combined approach. Histopathological diagnosis was schwannomas in two, pleomorphic adenoma in two, meningioma, paraganglioma, adenocarcinoma, metastatic carcinoma of unknown origin, chondrosarcoma, and carcinoma in pleomoric adenoma in one case each.