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European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
Published in: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology 8/2007

01-08-2007 | Case Report

Bilateral external auditory canal squamous cell carcinoma: a case report

Authors: Çağdaş Elsürer, Hilmi Alper Şenkal, Ehab Zayyan, Taner Yılmaz, Sefa Kaya

Published in: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology | Issue 8/2007

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Abstract

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the external auditory canal (EAC) is an extremely rare malignant tumor with a prevalance between 1 and 6 cases per 1 million population. The incidence is higher in patients presenting with otological diseases (1 in 5,000 to 15,000). Certain associating factors have been described in the literature. This malignancy frequently presents with symptoms similar to a case of otitis externa or a chronic suppurative otitis media. In this paper, we present a patient who had bilateral SCC of EAC caused by radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma. To our knowledge, our case is the fifth bilateral SCC of the EAC and the first bilateral radiotherapy related SCC of the EAC reported in the literature so far.
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Metadata
Title
Bilateral external auditory canal squamous cell carcinoma: a case report
Authors
Çağdaş Elsürer
Hilmi Alper Şenkal
Ehab Zayyan
Taner Yılmaz
Sefa Kaya
Publication date
01-08-2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology / Issue 8/2007
Print ISSN: 0937-4477
Electronic ISSN: 1434-4726
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-007-0274-4

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