TY - JOUR
T1 - Case report
T2 - Metastatic small-cell lung carcinoma of the external auditory canal
AU - Hain, Moshe
AU - Feldberg, Edit
AU - Halperin, Doron
PY - 2012/11
Y1 - 2012/11
N2 - We report the case of a 73-year-old man who developed metastatic small-cell lung cancer to the bony external auditory canal (EAC). The patient had only recently been diagnosed with his primary carcinoma. The metastasis presented as a bulky, fleshy, bleeding mass in the right EAC. Biopsy of the metastasis revealed that its histologic characteristics were identical to those of the primary. This case is of interest because this was a unique type of metastasis to the EAC. Although there are reports in the literature of lung cancer and even small-cell cancer metastasizing to the temporal bone, we could find no previously published report of a small-cell lung carcinoma metastasizing to the EAC.
AB - We report the case of a 73-year-old man who developed metastatic small-cell lung cancer to the bony external auditory canal (EAC). The patient had only recently been diagnosed with his primary carcinoma. The metastasis presented as a bulky, fleshy, bleeding mass in the right EAC. Biopsy of the metastasis revealed that its histologic characteristics were identical to those of the primary. This case is of interest because this was a unique type of metastasis to the EAC. Although there are reports in the literature of lung cancer and even small-cell cancer metastasizing to the temporal bone, we could find no previously published report of a small-cell lung carcinoma metastasizing to the EAC.
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U2 - 10.1177/014556131209101107
DO - 10.1177/014556131209101107
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C2 - 23288792
AN - SCOPUS:84871129308
SN - 0145-5613
VL - 91
SP - 476
EP - 478
JO - Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
JF - Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
IS - 11
ER -