Abstract
Although exostoses of the external auditory canal are not uncommon, those of the internal canal are extremely rare, and only a few cases have been reported in the literature. Several of these cases have been verified with radiologic methods. Our aim is to present this rare pathology detected with CT findings associated with literature.
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