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Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery > Volume 20(2); 1977 > Article
Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 1977;20(2): 69-72.
A Case of the Eosinophilic Granuloma of the Temporal Bone
SC Bahk, MD, KH Ahn, MD, KH Paik, MD, and KH Rhee, MD (Director : JC Rhee, MD)
Department of Otolaryngology, Fatima Hospital, Taegu, Korea
側頭骨에 發生한 好酸球性 肉芽腫의 1例
박순천 · 안기헌 · 백기학 · 이강혁 (지도 : 이정창 선생)
대구 파티마병원 이비인후과
ABSTRACT

The concept of eosinophilic granuloma is of rather recent origin and was named by Lichtenstein and Jaffe, in 1940 as a new and interesting entity of unknown origin, although they suggested the possibility of a virus etiology. In 1952, Harris and Spencer reported a case of a 3-year-old girl who suffered from eosinophilic granulomas of both mastoids. Eosinophilic granuloma is the localized variety of histiocytosis X manifested by single or multiple isolated bony lesions and carries a favorable prognosis. Recently, the authors experienced a case of eosinophilic granuloma of the temporal bone. The patient, 10 year-old male child, was admitted through OPD with both intermittent otorrhea and hearing impairment. Law's view revealed a cholesteatoma like large oval radiolucent defect of the right mastoid and cloudiness of the left mastoid air cells. Then it was treated as surgical procedures (tympanoplasty with mastoidectomy) and x-ray therapy with good result. Now, after follow up study of 11 months, patient has good ear findings with improved hearing. 

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