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Exostosis of the internal auditory canal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Huynh T. Doan*
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
James S. Powell
Affiliation:
Department of Neurosurgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
*
H. T. Doan, M.D., Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 11th & Walnut Streets; Philadelphia, PA 19107, U.S.A.

Abstract

Although exostoses of the external auditory canal are not uncommon, those of the internal canal are extremely rare. One of these is described occurring in a 53-year-old man whose rapidly progressive hearing loss was without any associated abnormality.

Type
Clinical Records
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1988

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