Ear Attic Defect

The cavity of the middle ear is a narrow air filled space.

Ear attic defect.

A defect by erosion is seen in the posterior superior aspect of the eardrum with accumulation of keratinous material. Depending on the defect size more than one piece of cartilage may be used. 35 mastoid cholesteatoma. Group 2 included 31 patients with extensive disease within the mastoid cavity proper.

Probable large but dormant sac. These chambers are also referred to as the atrium and the attic respectively. Autologous incus is a reliable method to use with an intact stapes. A cholesteatoma is an abnormal noncancerous skin growth that can develop in the middle section of your ear behind the eardrum.

It may be a birth defect but it s most commonly caused by repeated. The pars tensa is diffusely tympanosclerotic secondary to past middle ear disease. This is a cholesteatoma that has formed. The area of the superior portion of the eardrum is retracted or sucked in trapping skin cells and debris and eating away at the hearing bones and ear canal bone.

Residual attic and tympanic membrane defects were reconstructed with a composite tragal graft. 1 through an attic defect 2 via erosions in the canal wall 3 as a pars tensa invagination and 4 as a. Wide transcanal atticotomy was performed and the bony defect was enlarged into the antrum and was packed and left open. Bone defect of the attic wall eustachian tubal dysfunction and middle ear inflammation among others are proposed as factors that can cause the pocket.

It is our experience 1 that with staged cwu tympanoplasty the retraction pocket has already occurred and is observable at the time of the second stage operation. The attic is just above the eardrum. A large plug of keratin filling an attic defect. The ossicular chain reconstruction depends on the surgeon s preference.

A large attic defect is seen with accumulation of keratinous material. A slight constriction divides it into an upper and a lower chamber the tympanum tympanic cavity proper below and the epitympanum above. Reconstructing the attic defect is usually done with tragal cartilage with perichondrium as an island graft type fashion. No middle ear ossicles are observed.

Abstract recurrent cholesteatoma after closed techniques occurs in four patterns.