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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...