South African Journal of Radiology (Mar 2008)

Post-traumatic cholesteatoma... a rare occurrence

  • L Naidoo,
  • A Nanan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4102/sajr.v12i2.570
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 2

Abstract

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Temporal bone fractures and their acute complications have been well described in radiology and ENT journals. This is in contrast to the delayed and rare complication of implantation cholesteatomas. We present the CT findings of two cases of infiltrating cholesteatomas that developed many years following temporal bone trauma.

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