T-CELL LYMPHOMA OF THE EAR PRESENTING AS MASTOIDITIS

Mastoiditis is a complication of otitis media characterized by suppura tion and destruction of air cell septa in the mastoid and petrous pyra mid. Diagnosis is made by clinical findings and computerized tomograph y (CT) of the temporal bone. We present a patient initially diagnosed by CT as having chronic mastoiditis who was subsequently shown to have an unusual large-cell malignant lymphoma of T cell type.