Microsurgical Management of Middle Ear and Petrous Bone Cholesteatoma

The key reference dedicated to surgery for cholesteatoma...

The cholesteatoma, strictly speaking a cyst and not a cancer, nevertheless shows expansive and destructive growth patterns that may give rise to serious symptoms and consequences, including fatality, not unlike those seen for malignant neoplasms.

The great challenge of therapy is to eradicate the pathologic growth while preserving hearing a...