Ceruminous adenoma

Ceruminoma

IMAGES IN NEUROLOGY

Ceruminous adenoma

Ceruminoma

Péricles Maranhão-Filho^I; Hélio Ferreira Lopes^II; Eliana Teixeira Maranhão^III; Gabriela Lima^IV

^INeurologist. Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Hospital Central I

^IINeurosurgeon. Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Hospital Central I

^IIIPhysiotherapist, Vestibular Rehabilitation Specialist. Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Hospital Central I

^IVNeuroradiologist. Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Hospital Central I

^{Correspondence}

A 27 year-old female patient with an external auditory canal lesion was diagnosed as ceruminous adenoma at the age of 17. She was operated on twice and underwent radiotherapy. The examination shows left prosopagnosia, ipsilateral deafness, and hemiglossoplegia. MRI depicts a heterogeneous lesion in the left temporal bone (Figure). "Ceruminoma" - a term considered by some to be a defunct diagnosis - is a rare, potentially malignant tumour, which presents itself as a yellow mass located to the external auditory canal in 90% of the cases^1,2. Treatment and prognosis depend on one of the eight currently recognized histomorphologic subtypes (ceruminous and pleomorphic adenoma, cylindrome, adenoid cystic, ceruminous and mucoepidermoide adenocarcinoma, eccrine cylindrome and syringocystiadenoma papilliferum)².

Received 8 September 2010

Received in final form 15 October 2010

Accepted 22 October 2010

• 1. Neto SC, Duprat A, Freitas EB, et al. Adenoma ceruminoso do ouvido médio (revisão da literatura e apresentação de um caso). Rev Bras Otorrinolaringol 1989; 55:179-184.
• 2. Maheshwari MB, Hejmadi RK, Stores OPR, O'Connell J. Ceruminous gland tumour. Histopathology 2002;41: 275-276.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  26 Apr 2011
• Date of issue
  Apr 2011