Cancer Metastasis in the Temporal Bone Simulating Acute Inflammation in the Middle Ear

Abstract

Primary malignant tumours in the temporal bone or secondary tumours spreading from the surroundings, such as cancer, sarcoma, endothelioma and chloroma, are certainly not common, but nevertheless descriptions of such phenomena are occasionally found in the literature (Schlittler, Doderlein, Marx, Goerke, Fleischmann, Briihl, Thorell.)