The Journal of Laryngology & Otology

Table of Contents - October 1991 - Volume 105, Issue 10  

Clinical Records

Exostosis of the external auditory canal: an interesting histopathological finding

A. Pace-Baizana1 c1* and M. Hawkea1**

a1 The Ear Pathology Research Laboratory, Departments of Otolaryngology and Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

Perforation of the tympanic membrane is a frequent complication of surgery for exostoses of the external auditory canal We report an unusual histopathological finding in a temporal bone containing external canal exostoses which suggests that some of these perforations may be unavoidable.

(Accepted June 28 1991)

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(Toronto, Canada)

* Research Fellow

** Director

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