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    <language>eng</language>
          <publisher>Oriental Scientific Publishing Company</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal</journalTitle>
          <issn>0974-6242</issn>
            <publicationDate>2016-12-22</publicationDate>
    
        <volume>9</volume>
        <issue>3</issue>

 
    <startPage>1157</startPage>
    <endPage>1159</endPage>

	 
      <doi>10.13005/bpj/1063</doi>
        <publisherRecordId>10740</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng">Mastoid Osteoma: Report of an Unusual Case</title>

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      <author>
       <name>Behroz Barati</name>

 
		
	<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
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      <author>
       <name>Mahboobe Asadi</name>


		
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		<affiliationName affiliationId="1">Faculty of medicine, Department of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliationName>
    

		
		
		
		
		
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    <abstract language="eng">Mastoid osteomas are rare asymptomaticlesion. When symptomsare present, surgical resection is the treatment of choice.<em>Case report</em>: The authors report a case of mastoid osteoma in a 56-year old woman. Computed tomography performed because of a retroauricular mass identified a large osteoma of the mastoid. Surgery carried out because of conductive hearing loss.<em>Results</em>: conductive hearing loss is an indication for surgical management of mastoid osteoma.<em>Conclusion</em>: mastoid osteoma is rare and surgery indicated in symptomatic cases.</abstract>

    <fullTextUrl format="html">https://biomedpharmajournal.org/vol9no3/mastoid-osteoma-report-of-an-unusual-case/</fullTextUrl>

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        <keyword>osteoma</keyword>
      

      
        <keyword> mastoid</keyword>
      
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