title: Fibrous dysplasia of the temporal bone.
abstract: A 38-year-old woman with fibrous dysplasia of the entire right half of the mandible and the right temporal bone is presented. She had a unilateral progressive conductive hearing loss and stenosis of the auditory canal complicated by a chronic external otitis, a hidden cholesteatoma, destruction of the ossicles and an impending facial palsy. Surgery was performed to create a new auditory canal, to eradicate the cholesteatoma and to decompress the facial nerve from the surrounding fibrous dysplasia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, St. Radboud Hospital, University of Nijmegon, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Pouwels
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Cremers
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002781:Cholesteatoma / Q000209:etiology; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000209:etiology; D004424:Ear Canal; D005260:Female; D005357:Fibrous Dysplasia of Bone / Q000150:complications*; D006314:Hearing Loss, Conductive / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008334:Mandible; D013701:Temporal Bone