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| Year : 2014 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 132-133 |
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Mastoid osteoma
Umesh Chandra Parashari, Sachin Khanduri, Nidhi Singh, Samarjit Bhadury
Department of Radio Diagnosis, Era's Lucknow Medical College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Umesh Chandra Parashari
Department of Radio Diagnosis, Era's Lucknow Medical College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-7749.136865
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Osteomas are benign tumors of mesenchymal origin. Osteomas of head and neck origin have been described, but mastoid osteoma form a rare entity with only 150 cases being reported in the literature. Osteomas of the mastoid bone are usually asymptomatic but may cause cosmetic deformity. We reported a rare case of mastoid osteoma in a young female with a hard swelling in the postauricular region, which was clinically asymptomatic, but causing cosmetic deformity and gave unseemly appearance. On imaging studies, radiographs of skull showed a dense radiopacity in the mastoid region and noncontrast computed tomography of the temporal bone showed a densely calcified lesion of bone attenuation in left mastoid. |
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