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Cranial fasciitis presenting as an external auditory canal mass
C G Clapp1, E E Dodson, B P Pickett
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA.
Archives of Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery
|February 1, 1997
Abstract:
Cranial fasciitis is a rare benign lesion that develops in childhood. It is considered a subset of nodular fasciitis but occurs selectively in the scalp of children. A review of the world literature revealed only 22 other published cases and no previous reports of a lesion involving the petrous portion of the temporal bone or presenting as a mass in the external auditory canal. We report a rare case of cranial fasciitis in the petrous portion of the temporal bone of a neonate and present a review of the literature.