Primary presentation of malignant lymphoma in middle ear cleft.
An unusual case of histiocytic type malignant lymphoma with primary presentation in the middle ear cleft in a 32-year-old female patient is reported. Despite combined surgical, radiological and chemotherapeutic treatment, the patient expired from a fulminant spread of the lymphoma 14 months after the first clinical manifestation of the disease in the right ear.
D000328:Adult; D004428:Ear Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D004432:Ear, Middle; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy