Burkitt's lymphoma of the mastoid temporal bone

De novo CD5-positive Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma of the Temporal Bone Presenting with an External Auditory Canal Tumor

“…We found only 17 reported cases of primary temporal bone lymphoma in the English and Japanese literature, including the cases of primary lymphoma of the middle ear (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28) (13,15,20,23 …”

Primary Presentation of Pediatric Hematopoietic Malignancy in the Temporal Bone: Case Report and Review of the Literature

“…When the 24 literature cases were combined with our case, 4 classifications of lymphoid neoplasms associated with the temporal bone were noted, including 7 cases of B cell lymphoma, [6][7][8][9][10][11][12] 4 T cell lymphomas, [13][14][15][16] 4 BLs, [17][18][19] and 10 leukemias. [20][21][22][23][24][25] 17 of 25 patients were male.…”

“…The most common imaging findings included opacification of mastoid air cells (52%), the presence of a soft tissue or solid mass within the temporal bone (36%), and bony erosion (32%); opacification of the middle ear was inconsistently reported. Time to definitive diagnosis of malignancy varied greatly, ranging from 2 days 17 to 6 months, 13 after initial presentation, with a mean of approximately 6 weeks.…”

“…Two articles reported death at 1 month of leukemia 20 and 4 months secondary to BL. 17 The remainder of cases report varying lengths of survival and follow-up. One article did not report survival as the patient was referred to an outside institution; however, this patient was in remission at the time of referral.…”