Combined use of an operating microscope and a middle ear endoscope seems to be helpful for selecting an appropriate surgical technique and for identifying more patients in whom cholesteatoma can be removed by a trans-canal approach alone. To investigate whether attic cholesteatoma can be treated by a trans-canal approach alone, a review was performed of patients who had undergone endoscopically...

INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) has been proven to be valuable in the diagnosis of middle ear cholesteatoma. The aims of our study were to evaluate the advantage of multi-shot turbo spin echo (MSh TSE) DWI compared to single-shot echo-planar (SSh EPI) DWI for the diagnosis of cholesteatoma. MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty-two patients with clinical suspicion of unilatera...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the correlation between the surgeon's intraoperative findings and histopathologic diagnosis of cholesteatoma specimens and the associated health care cost in requesting pathologic evaluation. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart analysis. METHODS Chart data were collected at a tertiary neurotology referral center from patients undergoing tympanomastoidectomy fo...

Clinically significant sellar cysts unrelated to pituitary adenomas are uncommon. Intracranial cholesteatomas are also rare and are most common in the middle ear and mastoid region. We report an even rarer case of cholesteatoma in the sellar region-a challenging diagnosis guided by clinical presentations, radiological signs, and biopsy, aiming at emphasize the importance of considering choleste...

OBJECTIVE To assess the results of tympanoplasty in children with primary ciliary dyskinesia complicated by tympanic perforation or cholesteatoma with hearing loss and/or recurrent otorrhea. DESIGN Retrospective study. Postoperative follow-up of 26.3 months in the type 1 tympanoplasty group and 46 months in the child with cholesteatoma. SETTING Hospitalized care, referral center. PATIENTS...

OBJECTIVE To assess the usefulness of delayed post-contrast computed tomography (CT) examination for the detection of residual or recurrent cholesteatoma after canal wall up tympanoplasty. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING This prospective, non-randomized study, set within an academic medical centre, included 17 consecutive patients who had undergone canal wall up tympanoplasty for cholesteatoma, with...

Osteoma and cholesteatoma of the external auditory canal is a rare clinical finding, presenting specific challenges in patients suffering from this dual pathology of the ear. We report on a unique complication of this association in a patient suffering with recurrent neck abscesses. Neck disease secondary to cholesteatoma has become nearly extinct with better clinical imaging and sensible antib...

Cochlear implant (CI) surgery in cholesteatoma is challenging because of the risk of residual or recurrent infection. Although CI could be done with subtotal petrosectomy in single or staged surgery, this surgery needed additional surgical procedures to obliterate the mastoid cavity. This paper describes a new surgical technique for CI surgery in cholesteatoma without external auditory canal cl...

Background: Endoscope and microscope are exclusively used in different middle ear pathologies as well patients with attic cholesteatoma. However, straightforward information regarding surgical advances, postoperative results, about which how this technique should be is debatable.
 Aim: To compare the outcome of primary exclusive endoscopic surgery those microscopic two groups cholesteatoma...

IMPORTANCE The aggressive growth of cholesteatoma in the middle ear involves the angiogenesis of the cholesteatomal perimatrix. However, which transcription factor is involved in this process remains unclear. OBJECTIVE To identify a transcription factor that supports the aggressive growth of cholesteatoma by controlling the angiogenesis of cholesteatoma in the middle ear milieu. DESIGN We u...