A cholesteatoma is a skin growth in your middle ear behind your eardrum.
Attic cholesteatoma symptoms.
As skin cells gather the cholesteatoma grows.
Swelling of the inner ear.
Here learn about the causes symptoms treatment and complications of a cholesteatoma.
If the cholesteatoma pokes posteriorly into the aditus ad antrum and the mastoid itself erosion of the tegmen mastoideum with exposure of the dura and or erosion of the lateral semicircular canal.
Chronic infection of the ear.
Other potential complications include.
Paralysis of the facial muscles.
A cholesteatoma is an abnormal skin growth in the middle ear.
Constant sound inside your ear tinnitus dizziness or vertigo ear infection earache feeling of fullness in one ear fluid that smells bad and leaks from your ears trouble hearing in one ear weakness in half your face.
Brain abscesses or collections of pus in the brain.
It starts out as a build up of skin cells and earwax that then becomes a lump.
Symptoms that can be a sign of a more serious condition and that require immediate attention include.
Meningitis which is a life threatening brain infection.