Abstract
Ewing’s sarcoma is a malignant, round cell tumor arising from the bones and primarily affecting children and adolescent, accounting for 3 % of all childhood malignancies. Although the long bones and the trunk are typically affected, rare cases of it involving isolated bones throughout the body have been reported. Involvement of the skull bones is rare, constituting 1–6 % of the total Ewing’s sarcoma cases but those affecting the cranial bones are rarer still, constituting only 1 %. We describe an 8 months old infant having Ewing sarcoma, of the petrous and mastoid parts of temporal bone along with the occipital bone, whose clinical presentation mimicked mastoiditis with facial nerve palsy. We discuss the clinical and therapeutic course of an extensive primary Ewing sarcoma of the temporal bone, which was treated without performing surgery and review this entity’s literature in detail.
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Gupta, D., Gulati, A. & Purnima Primary Ewing’s Sarcoma of the Temporal Bone: A Rare Case Report and Literature Review. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 69, 415–419 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-015-0942-4
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