RADICAL MASTOID CAVITY RECONSTRUCTION - THE PEDICLED MUSCULO-FASCIAL FLAP

This paper reports a new procedure used successfully in the reconstruc tion of 12 radical mastoid cavities in King Fahd Hospital of the Unive rsity, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. A composite pedicled flap composed of temporalis muscle and its fascia attached along one border, based post eriorly, is rotated in to the radical cavity. The muscle is used to ob literate the cavity and the fascia is hinged forward as a tympanic mem brane graft.