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Rare disease
CASE REPORT
Isolated Schneiderian papilloma of the middle ear cleft
  1. Mark Adams1,
  2. Catherine Smith2 and
  3. Susanne Hampton3
  1. 1 Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK
  2. 2 Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Western Health and Social Care Trust, Londonderry, UK
  3. 3 ENT, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Belfast, UK
  1. Correspondence to Mark Adams, jadams08{at}qub.ac.uk

Abstract

A 60-year-old woman presented with pulsatile tinnitus in the left ear. MRI and CT imaging suggested a soft-tissue mass in the middle ear. Exploratory tympanotomy and biopsy confirmed Schneiderian (inverted) papilloma. Endoscopic and radiological assessment showed no evidence of sinonasal lesions. The patient proceeded to mastoid surgery with removal of the ossicles for disease clearance. The small number of cases published to date of isolated middle ear inverted papilloma suggest a high recurrence and malignant transformation rate and aggressive management is therefore warranted.

  • ear, nose and throat/otolaryngology
  • otolaryngology/ent

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-228130

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors The lead author MA wrote the main body of the article. CS and SH contributed to the discussion and literature review.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.