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

Table 1

Clinical features of cases of temporal pseudotumor reported in the literature.

Reported cases	Age/sex	Symptoms	Location	Treatment	Outcome
Yanagihara et al. [2]	41/M	Recurrent FP	ME/facial nerve	Surg	NED
Benton et al. [3]	37/M	Ota	ME/M	Surg/Radio	NED at 1 yr
Nam et al. [4]	24/F	Ota/HL/Dizz/RP	M/dura	Surg/Radio	NED at 1 yr
Wiseman et al. [5]	4/M	FP	ME/M/facial nerve	Surg	NED
	39/M	HL	ME/M/Lab/IAC	Surg	NED
Mulder et al. [6]	38/F	HL	ME/M/Lab/IAC	Surg	NED
	50/F	HL	ME/M/Lab/IAC	Surg	Relapsed
Janicki et al. [7]	55/M	Oto/Tinn/vertigo	ME/M/dura/petrous apex	Radio	NED at 2 mo
	39/F	Ota/Oto/vertigo/HL	ME/M	Surg/steroid/IST	Relapsed at 4 mo
Schönermark [8]	49/F	Ota/Oto/HL	ME/M/Lab	Surg/steroid	NED at 30 mo
	35/F	FP/HL/Ota/Oto	ME/M/Lab	Surg/IST	NED at 2 yrs
	59/M	Ota/Oto/HL	ME/M/Lab	Surg/IST/steroid	Died of the disease
Gasparotti et al. [9]	26/M	Vertigo	M/Teg/Sig/dura	Surg	NED
Williamson et al. [10]	49/M	HL/Oto	ME/M/Teg/MCF/Lab	Surg/steroid	NED at 6 mo
Cho et al. [11]	42/F	Hea/HL/FP/diplopia/; visual dimness	M/ME/dura/tentorium/; cavernous sinus	Steroid	Remission at 3 mo
Cho et al. [12]	55/F	HL/Oto	ME/M	Surg	NED at 1 yr
Lee et al. [13]	39/M	HL/RP/diplopia	M/petrous apex/lung	Surg/steroid	NED at 1 yr
Lee et al. [14]	28/F	FP/Ota	M	Surg	NED at 3 yrs
Strasnick and Vaughan [15]	65/F	HL/Dizz/Tinn	M/Sig/MCF	Surg/Radio/steroid	NED at 8 yrs
	40/M	HL/facial pain/; ear fullness	Petrous apex/M/ME	Surg/Radio	NED at 10 yrs
Coulson et al. [16]	60/M	HL/Oto/Ota/FP	M/ME/brain parenchyma	Steroid	NED at 18 mo
Lee et al. [17]	7/F	HL/ear-fullness	ME/M	Surg	NED at 6 mo
Allona et al. [18]	28/M	Hea	Petrous apex/Sig	No	Remission at 1 yr
Ajibade et al. [19]	41/M	Ota/HL/Tinn/Oto	M/Teg/dura	Surg/steroid	Relapsed at 4 mo
Curry et al. [20]	2.5/M	Ota/fluctuating FP	ME/M/Lab	Surg/steroid	NED at 1.5 yrs
Santaolalla-Montoya et al. [21]	75/M	Hea/Oto/HL	ME/M/Petrous apex/dura	Surg/steroid	Died of the disease
Galindo et al. [22]	28/M	HL/Hea/Ota	Petrous apex/ME	No	Remission at 3 yrs
Goh et al. [23]	27/F	Ota/HL	ME/M (bilateral)	Surg/steroid	NED at 3 yrs
Vasileios et al. [24]	19/M	auricular polyp	ME/External ear	Surg	NED at 6 mo

Ota: otalgia; HL: hearing loss; Dizz: dizziness; Tinn: tinnitus; RP: retrobulbar pain; Oto: otorrhea; Hea: headache; FP: facial palsy; Exo: exophthalmos; ME: middle ear; M: mastoid; Lab: labyrinth; Teg: tegmen tympani; MCF: middle cranial fossa; Sig: sigmoid sinus; IAC: internal auditory canal; Surg: surgery; Radio: radiotherapy; IST: immunosuppressive therapy; NED: no evidence of disease at followup.