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Chia-Huei Chu, MD; Tzong-Yang Tu, MD, PhD; Anna Fen-Yan Li, MD, PhD; Wen-Liang Lo, DDS; Chueh-Chuan Yen, MD, PhD
Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2006;132:109.

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A 48-year-old woman presented with a 2-month history of progressive hearing loss in her right ear, accompanied by intermittent purulent and blood-tinged otorrhea. Her medical history was remarkable for type 2 diabetes mellitus and for an operation that had been performed on the lower part of her left leg because of a bone tumor 3 three years earlier. Otoscopy of her right ear showed a lobulated, purple mass occluding the entire external auditory canal. The findings of her neurologic and head and neck examinations were otherwise within normal limits. A computed tomographic scan of the temporal bone demonstrated an approximately 24-mm soft tissue mass, with obliteration of the deep portion of the right external auditory canal and partial erosion of the anterior bony canal (Figure 1). Magnetic resonance imaging . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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