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CHARLES E. TOWSON, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1950;52(5):709-724.

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BONY TUMORS of the mastoid bone are comparatively uncommon. Osteomas have been reported by Leoni,¹ Simpson,² Stuart,³ Haymann,⁴ Ventura-Gregorini,⁵ Bruzzi,⁶ Cinelli,⁷ Fränkel,⁸ Friedberg,⁹ Preusse,¹⁰ Hempstead,¹¹ Coates,¹² Bazzana,¹³ Germán¹⁴ and Jervey.¹⁵ A fibro-chondro-osteoma was reported by S. MacC. Smith,¹⁶ an osteo-fibroma by d'Errico¹⁷ and a fibroma by Berger.¹⁸ But monostotic fibrous dysplasia of bone is apparently a very rare finding in the mastoid or the temporal bone. In a series of 67 cases studied during World War II, Schlumberger¹⁹ found only one case in which the mastoid process was involved.

The patient in Schlumberger's case had a history of frequent earaches and aural discharge until he was 12 years old. Then swelling developed behind the left ear, slowly increased in size and was associated with intermittent pain. In contrast to the case to be presented here, the operation disclosed an extremely vascular mastoid, the content of which was gritty . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Otology, Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia; Assistant Otologist, Jefferson Medical College Hospital PHILADELPHIA

From the Department of Otology, Jefferson Medical College Hospital.

Footnotes
Read before the Philadelphia Laryngological Society, Jan. 3, 1950.

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