Bilateral osteomas and exostoses of the internal auditory canal

Christopher A Schutt; Jennifer N Guo; Kenneth A Bagwell; Ketan R Bulsara; Ajay Malhotra; Elias Michaelides

doi:10.1016/j.amjoto.2015.03.006

Bilateral osteomas and exostoses of the internal auditory canal

Am J Otolaryngol. 2015 Jul-Aug;36(4):583-6. doi: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2015.03.006. Epub 2015 Apr 8.

Authors

Christopher A Schutt¹, Jennifer N Guo², Kenneth A Bagwell³, Ketan R Bulsara⁴, Ajay Malhotra⁵, Elias Michaelides⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Section of Otolaryngology, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Physicians Building, 4th Floor 800 Howard Ave, New Haven, CT, United States. Electronic address: christopher.schutt@yale.edu.
² Department of Surgery, Section of Otolaryngology, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Physicians Building, 4th Floor 800 Howard Ave, New Haven, CT, United States. Electronic address: jennifer.guo@yale.edu.
³ Department of Surgery, Section of Otolaryngology, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Physicians Building, 4th Floor 800 Howard Ave, New Haven, CT, United States. Electronic address: kenneth.bagwell@yale.edu.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, P.O. Box 208082, New Haven, CT, United States. Electronic address: ketan.bulsara@yale.edu.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Section of Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 20 York Street South Pavilion, 2nd floor, New Haven, CT, United States. Electronic address: ajay.malhotra@yale.edu.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Section of Otolaryngology, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Physicians Building, 4th Floor 800 Howard Ave, New Haven, CT, United States. Electronic address: elias.michaelides@yale.edu.

PMID: 25896777
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2015.03.006

Abstract

Osteomas and exostoses are benign tumors of the bone that occur in the head and neck region but are rarely found within the internal auditory canal (IAC). In this report, we review the literature on bony lesions of the IAC and present two cases: one case of bilateral compressive osteomas and one case of bilateral compressive exostoses of the IAC.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged, 80 and over
Bone Neoplasms / complications
Bone Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Diagnosis, Differential
Ear Canal*
Exostoses / complications
Exostoses / diagnostic imaging*
Female
Humans
Osteoma / complications
Osteoma / diagnostic imaging*
Temporal Bone*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed