A case report of meningioma extending to the middle ear.
Extracranial meningioma with extension into a middle ear is very uncommon. A 74-year-old female was admitted to our hospital with right ear bleeding when removing earwax. In this case, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, her past history and operative findings would consider as infiltrative growth from the right sphenoid ridge meningioma to the right middle ear via the right petrous pyramid and bilateral optic nerve. She underwent only partial extirpation with decompression for optic nerve, rather than total extirpation including middle ear and temporal bone, due to wide invasion of the middle cranial fossa and caversinus sinus.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine;
Takeshi
T
Kusunoki
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine;
Katsuhisa
K
Ikeda
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Mie
M
Miyashita
extracranial meningioma; middle ear.