Malaysian Family Physician (Sep 2021)

Tubotympanic cholesteatoma

  • Darshini Nagarajah,
  • Mohd Khairi Md Daud,
  • Nur Syazwani Salehuddin,
  • Nik Adilah Nik Othman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.51866/cr1136
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 3
pp. 123 – 125

Abstract

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Chronic suppurative otitis media is defined as a chronic inflammation of the mucoperiosteal lining of the middle ear cleft. It is described as a persistent disease that is insidious in onset, often capable of causing severe destruction with irreversible sequelae, and clinically present with hearing loss and discharge. It has been classified into tubotympanic (safe) and atticoantral (unsafe) perforation. Cholesteatoma always occur in the atticoantral type and in marginal perforation. We report a case of cholesteatoma that occurred as a tubotympanic type of perforation.

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