Cerebellopontine angle lymphoma presenting as chronic mastoiditis.
Middle-ear tumours are not uncommonly mistaken for mastoiditis on presentation. We report a case of cerebellopontine angle non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphoma originally presenting as a middle-ear inflammatory process. In mastoiditis not resolving with conventional treatment it is important to look for an underlying cause.
Hill
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Otolaryngology Department, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Little
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Vasan
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Giles
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D000368:Aged; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D002530:Cerebellopontine Angle; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004428:Ear Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D004432:Ear, Middle; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000150:complications*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008417:Mastoiditis / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods