Treatment of cholesteatomatous chronic suppurative otitis media

Today, cholesteatoma is not a mortality issue, it is a morbidity problem. Deterioration of quality of life as a result of hearing loss secondary to the disease and sequelae associated with radical operations with extensive mastoidectomy cavities, which require lifelong care from moisture and cleaning by trained personnel and which suffer a high risk of colonization by fungi and bacteria, make these issues a priority. Various techniques of treating cholesteatoma is introduced, studied and statistically experimented. Even though, most of studies and experiments showed positive result, canal wall down mastoidectomy with obliteration by bone paté and/or flaps have been shown best result and have been used worldwide nowadays. However, many studies showed that there are possibilities to be the choice of treating cholesteatoma other than canal wall down mastoidectomy with oblitertation by bone bone paté and/or flaps.egységes, osztatlanáltalános orvosangolP.J