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Roee Noy1,2, Ido Livneh3,4, Inna Naroditsky3,4
1Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, 8 Ha'Aliya Street, 3109601, Haifa, Israel. roeenoy@gmail.com.
Abstract:
The differential diagnosis for an isolated lytic mastoid lesion is broad, encompassing various conditions requiring careful consideration. These include granulomatous disorders such as Langerhans cell histiocytosis and sarcoidosis, neoplastic processes like multiple myeloma, leukemia, lymphoma, and metastases, primary bone diseases such as Paget's disease, fibrous dysplasia, and osteitis fibrosa cystica, as well as infectious causes like osteomyelitis. In this report, we present a patient with otalgia and an isolated lytic mastoid lesion.
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