SOME EXPERIENCES IN MANAGEMENT OF CANCER OF MIDDLE EAR AND MASTOID

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THIS communication will record the experience at this institute in the management of tumors of the middle ear and mastoid which have been seen in a rather extensive cancer service. Since the inception of this clinic approximately 70,000 patients have been referred here, of which number about 50 per cent are found to have tumor, mostly of a malignant category, with only 10 cases in which the tumorous lesion involved the middle ear or mastoid. In general, tumors of the ear are classified into three categories: (1) extrinsic—those occurring on the auricle, concha or external canal; (2) intrinsic—those occurring in the tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane or mastoid, and (3) indeterminate—those for which it is impossible, owing to the advanced stage of the lesion, to ascribe a possible origin in either of the two former regions. Of the 10 cases to be reported here, all were presumably cases of cancers

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