Attic Cholesteatoma Eardrum

1 attic retraction pocket cholesteatoma is clearly visualized white arrow.

Attic cholesteatoma eardrum. Ear canal skin sheds just like the skin in any other part of the body cholesteatomas often take the form of a cyst or pouch lined by ear canal skin. Skin material often accumulates in this pocket and becomes infected causing drainage and potential severe complications. It may be a birth defect but it s most commonly caused by repeated. Cholesteatoma or the skin in the wrong place occurs in the middle of the ear.

If the cholesteatoma has been dry the cholesteatoma may present the appearance of wax over the attic. This collects the layers of shed old skin and builds up inside the ear. The attic is just above the eardrum. There has been significant bone erosion of the ear canal wall above the eardrum.

Even after 300 years of its identification there is still no exact pathogenesis for the formation of cholesteatoma. Sometimes skin cells inside your ear can do this and cause a lump called a. If untreated a cholesteatoma can eat into the three small bones located in the middle ear the malleus incus and stapes collectively called ossicles which can result in nerve deterioration deafness imbalance and vertigo. A cholesteatoma is a skin growth that occurs in an abnormal location inside the middle ear behind the eardrum.