Abstract | OBJECTIVE: To investigate the location, clinical symptom, image features, treatment and prognosis of the congenital middle ear cholesteatoma. METHOD: Retrospective review of 9 patients treated at Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, the affiliated Hospital of the first Strasbourg University, France. RESULT: The mean age was 6.1 years. Including 7 boys and 2 girls with hearing loss, and 7 of them suffered conductive hearing loss. Typical cholesteatomas were found behind posterior tympanic membrane according the otoscopic examinations in 6 cases. CT were completed in 8 of 9 cases, spheroid or ovoid masses were found in the tympanic cavities, most of them located in the posterior region. All of the patients underwent the surgical treatment, 5 of 9 cases had the ossicular erosion. Four of 9 cases had the residual diseases. All of the cases were followed-up at the mean period of 5.3 years, the preoperative hearing threshold is 28 dB compared with 26 dB of postoperative hearing threshold. CONCLUSION:
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Authors | Yi Qian, Guohua Hu |
Journal | Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology, head, and neck surgery
(Lin Chung Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi)
Vol. 24
Issue 13
Pg. 601-3
(Jul 2010)
ISSN: 2096-7993 [Print] China |
PMID | 20842949
(Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Auditory Threshold
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cholesteatoma, Middle Ear
(congenital, diagnosis)
- Female
- Hearing Loss, Conductive
(etiology)
- Humans
- Male
- Prognosis
- Retrospective Studies
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