title: Osteopetrosis of the temporal bone.
abstract: Osteopetrosis is a rare hereditary disorder of bone development. We examined the right temporal bone of a 17-year-old boy with recessive osteopetrosis and a conductive hearing loss and describe the histopathologic characteristics. The conductive deafness in this case was caused primarily by recurrent otitis media.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004432:Ear, Middle / Q000473:pathology; D006312:Hearing Loss, Bilateral / Q000209:etiology; D006314:Hearing Loss, Conductive / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008416:Mastoid / Q000473:pathology; D010022:Osteopetrosis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000473:pathology*