Sarcoidosis of the Middle Ear and Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media: Coexisting Conditions?

[Aural polyps are considered a relatively infrequent pathologic condition which represents a complication consisting in an active chronic inflammatory process in 25oA to 45oA oÎ cases; alternatively, they may be the result of a specific systemic granulomatous disease of a benign tumor or of a malignant tumor. Ear involvement is extremely rare in sarcoidosis: 49 cases (1,2) have been reported in English literature, and only 5 of them were confined exclusively to the external and/or the middle ear. In this report, we describe a case ofchronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) with an aural polyp of the right ear. After histologic examination, diagnoses of CSOM and coexistent sarcoidosis were formulated.No abstract available]