Primary Presentation of Malignant Lymphoma in the Middle Ear Cleft: A Case Report / 대한이비인후과학회지

ABSTRACT

Most malignant lesions of the middle ear and mastoid cavity are usually originated from the epithelium. The squamous cell carcinoma accounts for 75-90% of all malignant tumors in this localization. However, malignant lymphoma of the middle ear cleft is very rare condition and usually occurs as an extension from the temporal bone, affected along the other organs in generalized lymphoma. Also, primary presentation of malignant lymphoma in the middle ear cleft is very extremely rare and only seven cases could be traced in the available literature2)5)6)11)12)13)14). We present a very rare case of diffuse large cell type non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma with primary presentation in the middle ear cleft in 30 year-old male patient. So, the authors first report a case of malignant lymphoma of the middle ear cleft in Korea with review of literature.