Large osteoma of the external auditory canal.The otoscopic view is that of the right ear of a 40-year-old man. He complained of obstruction and hearing loss. The bone-hard mass fills the ear canal ear canal n. The narrow, tubelike passage through which sound enters the ear. Also called external auditory canal. and is mobile on palpation palpation /pal·pa·tion/ (pal-pa´shun) the act of feeling with the hand; the application of the fingers with light pressure to the surface of the body for the purpose of determining the condition of the parts beneath in physical diagnosis. . The diagnosis of osteoma osteoma /os·te·o·ma/ (os?te-o´mah) a benign, slow-growing tumor composed of well-differentiated, densely sclerotic, compact bone, occurring particularly in the skull and facial bones. was confirmed by computerized tomography. The tumor was removed easily by cutting the skin around the fractured neck at its attachment to the anterior bony canal wall. The skin quickly healed over the bone after the osteoma was removed. |
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