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[Choristoma of the middle ear]
V V Dvoryanchikov1, N N Khamgushkeeva1, I A Anikin1
1Saint Petersburg ENT and Speech Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Abstract:
Choristoma is one of the varieties of congenital developmental anomalies, where one or another normal tissue of the body is located in an atypical place for itself. The short literary review of choristoma of middle ear is presented in article. A rare clinical cases of salivary gland choristoma of the middle ear (5-year-old girl with left-sided conductive hearing loss of III degree) and glial choristoma of the mastoid (19-year-old man with signs of chronic suppurative otitis media of the right ear) are described.
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