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A change in the symptoms of a patient with chronic ear infections should arouse the clinician's suspicion. A recent onset of pain, bleeding, or facial paralysis in a chronically infected ear is ominous. The key to the early diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma is the biopsy of all non healing ulcers and masses, and the histologic examination of all tissue removed from the ear canal. The carcinoma in this case is visible as a hypertrophic ulcerated mass arising from the floor of the canal. |
