Vol.103 No.3 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 103 No. 3 March 2010
Breast Carcinoma Metastasis to the Temporal Bone
Koji Miyata (Nishihara ENT Clinic)
Hideyuki Fukushima (Fukushima ENT Clinic)
Toshiki Maetani and Akiko Nishida (Kitano Hospital)
Nobuya Fujiki (Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki Hospital)
Nobumitsu Honda (Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital)
Tsunemichi Adachi (Kyoto University)
Mika Tsujimura (Kansai Rehabilitation Hospital)
Takushi Miyoshi (Japanese Red Cross Society Wakayama Medical Center)
Carcinoma rarely metastasizes to the temporal bone. We report breast carcinoma metastatic to the temporal bone. A 69-year-old woman treated for breast carcinoma 22 years earlier and seen for left otalgia was found in computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to have an abnormal left temporal bone lesion. Biopsy under local anesthesia yielded a histopathological diagnosis of metastatic breast carcinoma. She has been treated with aromatase inhibitor and bisphosphonate, and the metastatic lesion has not grown.
Key words :breast carcinoma, metastasis, temporal bone, otalgia