Yellowish discharge with a foul smell Cholesteatoma is a condition in which skin tissue takes hold in places where keratin should not accumulate, such as the middle ear, the space inside the eardrum, ...

Cholesteatoma is characterised by the aberrant proliferation of keratinising squamous epithelium within the middle ear and mastoid, leading to local bone erosion, hearing impairment and potential ...

445 nm diode lasers have already been used successfully and safely for cholesteatoma surgery. Due to the high absorption in hemoglobin, they generally provide a good combination of cutting precision ...

How do you Diagnose Cholesteatoma? The doctor will first take a detailed medical history and do a complete physical checkup to know about your general health. The following tests are then performed: ...

Cholesteatoma is a slowly progressive disease. Deafness due to a conductive hearing loss is common. The other complications occur rarely. The true incidence of cholesteatoma is not known but it is ...

The young girl from Montana in the north of Pretoria who underwent a mastoidectomy last year, will have to undergo another operation this year. Only after four months of recovery when Larochelle Bam ...

A recent case report reveals how pediatric middle-ear cholesteatoma can silently trigger life-threatening intracranial ...

A nationwide Swedish study including more than 10,000 cases of cholesteatoma, a lesion in the middle ear, shows a strong hereditary component to the disease. The current study is a case-controlled ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. DEAR DR. ROACH: I have recently been diagnosed with a cholesteatoma in one ...