‘Avoid vigorous exercise until further notice.’ The instruction came the day after surgery to remove a cholesteatoma from my left ear. The surgery involved clearing the cholesteatoma and affected ...

How do you Diagnose Cholesteatoma? The doctor will first take a detailed medical history and do a complete physical checkup to know about your general health. The following tests are then performed: ...

445 nm diode lasers have already been used successfully and safely for cholesteatoma surgery. Due to the high absorption in hemoglobin, they generally provide a good combination of cutting precision ...

The young girl from Montana in the north of Pretoria who underwent a mastoidectomy last year, will have to undergo another operation this year. Only after four months of recovery when Larochelle Bam ...

Cholesteatoma is a slowly progressive disease. Deafness due to a conductive hearing loss is common. The other complications occur rarely. The true incidence of cholesteatoma is not known but it is ...

A nationwide Swedish study including more than 10,000 cases of cholesteatoma, a lesion in the middle ear, shows a strong hereditary component to the disease. The current study is a case-controlled ...