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Two Cases of Congenital Cholesteatoma of the Tympanic Membrane

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Congenital cholesteatoma of the tympanic membrane is rare, and lesions without a history of otitis media or any other adverse events involving the tympanic membrane are extremely rare. We report two cases of this lesion; one was a 3-year-old girl who underwent removal of a cholesteatoma using retroauricular approach and a partial myringoplasty with an underlay technique, and the other was a 2-year-old girl in whom a cholesteatoma was enucleated without grafting. This disease is thought to be of embryonic origin.

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236-0004, Japan

    Hideki Matsuda, Kenichi Satake, Masahiro Takahashi, Choichi Horiuchi & Mamoru Tsukuda

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Matsuda, H., Satake, K., Takahashi, M. et al. Two Cases of Congenital Cholesteatoma of the Tympanic Membrane. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 64, 79–81 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-011-0126-9

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