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Osteoma of the internal auditory canal: case report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

D. J. Coakley ,
J. Turner  and
P. A. Fagan
D. J. Coakley
Affiliation:
Departments of Otology/Neuro-Otology and Anatomical Pathology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
J. Turner
Affiliation:
Departments of Otology/Neuro-Otology and Anatomical Pathology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
P. A. Fagan*
Affiliation:
Departments of Otology/Neuro-Otology and Anatomical Pathology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
*
Address for correspondence: Dr P. A. Fagan, 352 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010Australia. Fax: (02) 360 5419
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Abstract

A 42-year-old man with normal hearing presented with a long history of vertigo and tinnitus. CT scan showed large osteomata of the internal auditory canal. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was normal. The osteomata were removed surgically via the retrosigmoid approach and examined histologically. His symptoms were abolished. As MRI has become the gold standard in the search for small acoustic tumours it is likely that symptomatic bony lesions, rare though they are, will be missed if MRI is the sole imaging modality. A review of the literature is included.

Keywords

Auditory canal, internalOsteoma
Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 110 , Issue 2 , February 1996 , pp. 158 - 160
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1996

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Footnotes

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Fellow, Otology, Neuro-Otology.

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