Figure 2.

A 47-year-old male patient with “recidive chordoma,” arising from the posterior wall of the petrous apex, was operated. The lesion was exposed through a left petrosal retrolabyrinthine approach. The reconstruction of the approach was performed with autologous fat graft (a), fibrin glue and titanium mesh with the same shape of the mastoid process of the temporal bone (b and c). The postoperative computed tomography of the head in three-dimensional rendering showed the approach and its reconstruction (d). The follow-up at 1 year did not show any complication