Middle-Ear Paraganglioma Masquerading as Traumatic Facial Nerve Palsy With 1 color plate

Abstract

We report the case of a 52-year-old female with middle-ear paraganglioma masquerading as a traumatic facial palsy, and describe the diagnostic steps and surgical treatment by the tympanomastoid approach.

A case of middle-ear cavernous lymphangioma with facial palsy

“…In addition to facial schwannoma, other benign tumours of the middle ear that have been reported to lead to the development of facial palsy include glomus tumour, 1 , 2 adenoma 3 , 4 and haemangioma 5 – 7 . In the present report, we describe a case of lymphangioma of the middle ear which led to the development of facial palsy.…”