Melanocytic nevus is common pigmented skin tumor, but it has rare occurrence near the external auditory canal. A skin graft is required if a wide surgical excision is performed for the nevi occurring near the external auditory canal. A CO2 laser was considered to be a good alternative for the removal of melanocytic nevus in this area. We herein report a case of compound nevus occurring near the...

OBJECTIVES We report a rare case of spontaneous temporomandibular joint herniation into the external auditory canal. MATERIAL AND METHODS A 42-year-old woman consulted for recurrent right otalgia. RESULTS The clinical examination revealed a white mass of the anterior wall of the bony external auditory canal, very close to the tympanic annulus, which was replaced by an invagination of the sk...

BACKGROUND Apocrine hydrocystomas arising in the external auditory canal are very rare. In this report a clinical case of apocrine hydrocystoma located in the cartilaginous part of the external auditory canal is presented. CASE PRESENTATION A 64-year-old Caucasian female patient presented with a solitary nodule, located in the outer part of the external ear canal after repeated episodes of ex...

Hemangiomas of the external auditory canal, involving the posterior bony canal and the adjacent tympanic membrane, although rare, are considered a specific disease entity of the human external auditory canal. Hemangiomas of the tympanic membrane and/or external auditory canal are rare entities; there are 16 previous case reports in the literature. It is a benign vascular tumor. It generally occ...

Intradermal nevi are common benign pigmented skin tumors. Their occurrence within the external auditory canal is uncommon. The clinical and pathologic features of an intradermal nevus arising within the external auditory canal are presented, and the literature reviewed.

BACKGROUND Schwannomas are uncommon tumors of the external auditory canal. In the English literature, very few cases of schwannomas originating in the external auditory canal were reported and none of them showed chondroid metaplasia. We report the first case of schwannoma with chondroid metaplasia in this location. CASE PRESENTATION In this report, we described a 22-year-old white man who pr...

The tumors of the external auditory canal are relatively rare. Among these tumors an osteoma is not common. Two cases of osteoma of the external auditory canal were reported. The patient, 26-year-old female, had a history of left-sided hearing impairment and w hard mass protruding from the posterior part of the left external canal. A stony hard mass almost completely occlu ded the left external...