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Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 480476, 7 pages
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Case Report

Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Temporal Bone: Three Cases and a Review of the Literature

Huiqin Tian,1 Tingting Liu,1 Cong Wang,2 Lijun Tang,3 Zhibin Chen,1 and Guangqian Xing1

1Department of Otolaryngology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing 210029, China
2Department of Pathology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
3Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China

Received 10 October 2012; Revised 7 December 2012; Accepted 21 December 2012

Academic Editor: Peter S. Roland

Copyright © 2013 Huiqin Tian et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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