Intramastoid solitary neurofibroma mimicking middle ear carcinoma

Acta Radiologica Open
Zhenshan ShiDairong Cao

Abstract

We report an extremely rare case of intramastoid neurofibroma. A mass with destruction of the mastoid bone of a 51-year-old woman was examined with computed tomography. Subsequent magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated an ill-defined soft tissue mass with the opacification of mastoid air cells that had a mass effect in the same area. The patient underwent left subtotal temporal bone resection, and histological and immunohistochemical findings confirmed the lesion to be a neurofibroma. Given that similar imaging features of neurofibroma have been reported previously elsewhere in the head/neck and extremities, we suggest that it may be possible to include this tumor in the preoperative differential diagnosis.

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