Middle Ear Adenoma- A Rare Pathologic Encounter

Abstract

Middle ear adenoma [MEA]  is a rare pathologic condition and remains unsuspected clinically and radiologically. MEA has several clinical differential diagnoses that ranges from cholesteatoma to the one as rare as endolymphatic sac tumor.

A case has been reported of middle ear adenoma in a 62 years old male who was clinically unsuspected of it and had coexisting lesion of cholesteatoma and of Grade 3 facial nerve palsy which until has not been reported in literature to our knowledge.