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Salivary Gland Choristoma

Demet Yazici, MD; Fikret Çetik, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2006;132:1260-1262.

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INTRODUCTION

Middle ear salivary gland choristoma is a rare entity, and less than 30 cases have been reported since the first description in 1961 by Taylor and Martin.¹ The predominant clinical features of this disease are unilateral conductive hearing loss and abnormalities of the middle ear ossicles and the facial nerve. In this case report, we present an atypical case of salivary gland choristoma of the middle ear and review the literature.

In 1904, the German pathologist, Eugen Albrecht, first used the term choristoma (from the German word for "to separate") to differentiate abnormally placed tumorlike formations of normal tissues from "hamartoma," which are tumorlike formations containing abnormal mixtures of normal components of the organ where they occurred.²

In 1961, Taylor and Martin¹ reported the first case of middle ear salivary choristoma in a 31-year-old woman with unilateral conductive loss since childhood, and that following . . . [Full Text of this Article]

REPORT OF A CASE

COMMENT

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Author Affiliations: Department of Otolaryngology, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey.

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