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what is the definition of Cholesteatoma?
What is an abnormal growth of the skin filled with air or fluid in the middle ear and temporal bone behind the eardrum
Cholesteatoma does not include serious surgery
What is False
What was our presentation about?
What is cholesteatoma
What does an otoscope do
What is helps the provider detect abnormal discharge or a white mass
does cholesteatoma cause hearing loss
What is It could if not treated
Cholesteatoma is Rare
What is True (Fewer than 200,000 cases per year in the US)
Who are specialists to consult for cholesteatoma
What is Otolaryngologist, Audiologist
The discharge may be
What is Dark, Smelly, pus-like, sticky
Cholesteatoma occurs in about how many people
What is 1 in 20,000 people
Cholesteatomas usually cause symptoms in only one ear
What is True
Cholesteatoma is common for ages
What is 18-35 years old
How can we prevent cholesteatoma
What is to avoid inserting objects in the ear that may cause trauma to the tympanic membrane
How long is the surgery for cholesteatoma
What is 2-3 hours
Discharge of the ear is often smelly
What is True
What causes an ear cholesteatoma?
What is when the ear doesn’t drain
What is when skin cells collect behind the eardrum after a rupture
What is when skin cells become trapped in the middle ear before birth
Cholesteatoma symptoms include?
What is hearing loss, earache, tinnitus, dizziness, headaches, weakness in half of the face
if left untreated, it might result in complications such as?
What is Meningitis, facial paralysis, brain abscess
There is medication to treat cholesteatoma
What is False Treatment involves surgical method like mastoidectomy.
What does the operation involve?
What is the surgeon makes a cut in front of or behind your ear. then will remove bone from around the cholesteatoma to see where it has spread to, and remove it.
Name 1 common test or procedure for cholesteatoma
What is a CT scan, audiometry, examination under a microscope, MRI