Article Text
Rare disease
CASE REPORT
Lateral semicircular canal osteoma presenting as chronic postaural fistula
Summary
Temporal bone osteoma is an unusual pathology which can occur by birth or can be acquired and mostly involves the tympanomastoid segment of the temporal bone. Osteomas arising from the otic capsule are extremely rare, and there has been only one other report of a lateral semicircular canal osteoma in the literature. We report a similar case of an acquired lateral canal osteoma which presented as a chronic postaural fistula in an ear previously operated for paediatric cholesteatoma.
- ear, nose and throat/otolaryngology
- otolaryngology / ent