A Case of Middle Ear Effusion due to Lipoma on the Eustachian Tube / 대한이비인후과학회지

ABSTRACT

Lipoma of the head and neck region rarely occurs, if any, on the posterior triangle of neck. We have experienced a lipoma on Eustachian tube, which caused recurrent middle ear effusion. A 42-year-old female patient was presented with right aural fullness and hearing disturbance. She had a history of several cases of right middle ear effusion in the past and insertions of ventilation tubes to relieve each of them. A yellowish round mass was found on the pharyngeal orifice of the right Eustachian tube by fiberoptic nasopharyngoscopy. It was removed via endoscopic endonasal approach and there is no evidence of recurrence along about 3 months after the surgery. This would be a good case for the importance of nasopharyngeal examination in patient with middle ear effusion.