cholesteatoma tympani

cholesteatoma tympani
a type of cholesteatoma usually associated with chronic infection of the middle ear, formed of the outer desquamating layers of stratified squamous epithelium that have extended inward and upward to line the tympanum, epitympanum, and antrum.

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