Facial nerve palsy secondary to middle-ear lipoma

Kasbekar, Anand V.; Donnelly, Neil; Axon, Patrick

doi:10.1017/s0022215108002247

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“…In addition, although several hypotheses have been proposed from the etiological perspective, it remains unclear whether the so-called lipomas and chondromas are true tumors. As far as we could determine, only 9 cases of lipoma of the middle ear have been reported previously [1,2,3,5,6,7,12,14,15]. The details, including the case reported here, are summarized in Table 1.…”

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A Case of a Child with a Lipoma of the Middle Ear and a Concomitant Chondroma of the External Auditory Canal

Tachibana¹,

Nishizaki²,

Fujisawa³

et al. 2012

Journal of Case Reports in Medicine

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The case of a 2-year-old boy with a right middle ear lipoma and a concomitant chondroma of the left external auditory canal is presented. The patient's preoperative diagnosis was cholesteatomas of the right middle ear and left external ear canal. A right-sided epitympanotomy was performed. A lump of fatty tissue in the right anterior middle ear cleft that obstructed the Eustachian tube orifice was found. The white mass in the left external auditory canal, which easily separated from the tympanosquamous fissure of the temporal bone, was excised with a Rosen needle. Histopathologic examination revealed a lipoma of the right middle ear and a chondroma of the external ear canal. No cases of concomitant lipoma and chondroma have been previously reported. In the present case, the middle ear lipoma could be classified as a congenital anomaly because of its association with a contralateral side chondroma, which would be a choristoma.

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