Severe complications, mainly associated with the disturbance in healing of the retropharyngeal wall, were observed in all 3 patients. A preventive method, such as primary repair of the retropharyngeal wall using muscular/musculocutaneous flaps, should be considered for patients undergoing resection through a transoral approach after ion-beam irradiation.
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