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Ossifying fibroma of the head and neck: Involvement of the temporal bone — an unusual and challenging site
Author(s) -
Levine Paul A.,
Wiggins Robert,
Archibald Robert W. R.,
Britt Richard
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
the laryngoscope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1531-4995
pISSN - 0023-852X
DOI - 10.1288/00005537-198105000-00004
Subject(s) - medicine , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , anatomy , hyperostosis , temporal bone , head and neck , maxilla , presentation (obstetrics) , skull , maxillary sinus , conductive hearing loss , sinus (botany) , orbit (dynamics) , deformity , surgery , middle ear , botany , biology , engineering , genus , aerospace engineering
Ossifying fibroma of the head and neck is most commonly described in the mandible and maxilla. A few isolated reports in the literature exhibit the rare existence of this lesion in the nasal bones, orbit, ethmoid sinus, sphenoid sinus, occiput, and in only two well‐documented cases, the temporal bone. We present the case of an extensive ossifying fibroma of the temporal bone that presented as a suspected case of hypertosis of the external auditory canal and conductive hearing loss, without any cosmetic deformity. A review of the recent literature concerning the sites, radiologic presentation, difficulty of pathologic differentiation, and modality of therapy is discussed.