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T cell lymphoma of the ear presenting as mastoiditis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Joshua Danino ,
Henry Z. Joachims ,
Yehudith Ben-Arieh ,
Tsila Hefer  and
Miriam Weyl-Ben-Arush
Joshua Danino*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center, and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 31096 Haifa, Israel.
Henry Z. Joachims
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center, and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 31096 Haifa, Israel.
Yehudith Ben-Arieh
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Rambam Medical Center, and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 31096 Haifa, Israel.
Tsila Hefer
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center, and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 31096 Haifa, Israel.
Miriam Weyl-Ben-Arush
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Rambam Medical Center, and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 31096 Haifa, Israel.
*
Address for correspondence: Joshua Danino, M.D., Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center, P.O.B. 9602, 31096 Haifa, Israel.
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Abstract

Mastoiditis is a complication of otitis media characterized by suppuration and destruction of air cell septa in the mastoid and petrous pyramid. Diagnosis is made by clinical findings and computerized tomography (CT) of the temporal bone. We present a patient initially diagnosed by CT as having chronic mastoiditis who was subsequently shown to have an unusual large-cell malignant lymphoma of T cell type.

Keywords

Lymphoma, large cellLymphoma T cellMastoiditis
Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 111 , Issue 9 , September 1997 , pp. 852 - 854
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1997

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