cholesteatoma

pathology

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  • human ear
    In ear disease: Chronic middle-ear infection

    …by a condition known as cholesteatoma of the middle ear. This is an ingrowth of skin from the outer-ear canal that forms a cyst within the middle ear. An infected cholesteatoma cyst enlarges slowly but progressively, gradually eroding the bone until the cyst reaches the brain cavity, the nerve that…

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