Table 2shows the location of cholesteatoma.
Attic cholesteatoma ct.
Findings are characteristic of an acquired cholesteatoma.
The pars flaccida cholesteatoma originates in prussak space and usually extends posteriorly while the pars tensa cholesteatoma originates in the posterior mesotympanum and tends to extend posteromedially.
Extensive holotympanic acquired cholesteatoma was the most common found in 32 14 of patients followed by attic cholesteatoma found in 28 6 of patients.
A cholesteatoma is an abnormal skin growth that can develop in the middle ear.
Ct is required for preoperative planning reconstruction of ossicles if needed and to exclude perforation of the bony tegmen.
It usually begins as a collection of dead skin cells and develops into a cyst like pocket behind the eardrum.
The mass extends superiorly into the attic and appears to have eroded through the tegmentum as well as through the fallopian canal of the facial nerve and perhaps the lateral semicircular canal.
As the cholesteatoma fills the aditus ad antrum the adjacent lateral semicircular canal is at risk.
Cholesteatomas appear as regions of soft tissue attenuation exerting mass effect and resulting in bony erosion.