An unusual case of histiocytic type malignant lymphoma with primary presentation in the middle ear cleft in a 32-year-old female patient is reported. Despite combined surgical, radiological and chemotherapeutic treatment, the patient expired from a fulminant spread of the lymphoma 14 months after the first clinical manifestation of the disease in the right ear.
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