A case report of Kuttner tumor mimicking a malignant tumor, leading to overtreatment

Daisuke Baba; Keiichi Sotome; Ichiro Maeda; Kosuke Takabayashi; Kensuke Kiyomizu; Meiho Nakayama; Kaoru Ogawa

doi:10.1002/ccr3.4120

A case report of Kuttner tumor mimicking a malignant tumor, leading to overtreatment

Clin Case Rep. 2021 May 6;9(5):e04120. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.4120. eCollection 2021 May.

Authors

Daisuke Baba¹, Keiichi Sotome², Ichiro Maeda³, Kosuke Takabayashi⁴, Kensuke Kiyomizu⁵, Meiho Nakayama⁶, Kaoru Ogawa⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology Kitasato Institute Hospital Tokyo Japan.
² Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery Kitasato Institute Hospital Tokyo Japan.
³ Department of Pathology Kitasato Institute Hospital Tokyo Japan.
⁴ Department of Otorhinolaryngology Japanese Red Cross Asahikawa Hospital Hokkaido Japan.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry Yoshida Hospital Nobeoka Japan.
⁶ Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Good Sleep Centre Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medicine Aichi Japan.
⁷ Department of Otolaryngology Keio University Hospital Tokyo Japan.

Abstract

Preoperative diagnosis with multimodal approaches might lead to overtreatment. Cautious understanding of cytology and dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging is required when a Kuttner tumor is cited as differential diagnosis.

Keywords: Kuttner tumor; differential diagnosis; dynamic MRI; fine‐needle aspiration cytology.

Publication types

Case Reports