Ear Attic Defect

Residual attic and tympanic membrane defects were reconstructed with a composite tragal graft.

Ear attic defect.

These chambers are also referred to as the atrium and the attic respectively. A defect by erosion is seen in the posterior superior aspect of the eardrum with accumulation of keratinous material. The cavity of the middle ear is a narrow air filled space. A large plug of keratin filling an attic defect.

Autologous incus is a reliable method to use with an intact stapes. Depending on the defect size more than one piece of cartilage may be used. A large attic defect is seen with accumulation of keratinous material. Reconstructing the attic defect is usually done with tragal cartilage with perichondrium as an island graft type fashion.

1 through an attic defect 2 via erosions in the canal wall 3 as a pars tensa invagination and 4 as a. A slight constriction divides it into an upper and a lower chamber the tympanum tympanic cavity proper below and the epitympanum above. The area of the superior portion of the eardrum is retracted or sucked in trapping skin cells and debris and eating away at the hearing bones and ear canal bone. Wide transcanal atticotomy was performed and the bony defect was enlarged into the antrum and was packed and left open.

Abstract recurrent cholesteatoma after closed techniques occurs in four patterns. The pars tensa is diffusely tympanosclerotic secondary to past middle ear disease. The ossicular chain reconstruction depends on the surgeon s preference. No middle ear ossicles are observed.

The attic is just above the eardrum. A cholesteatoma is an abnormal noncancerous skin growth that can develop in the middle section of your ear behind the eardrum. It may be a birth defect but it s most commonly caused by repeated. Attic retraction pocket cholesteatoma case 1.

This is a cholesteatoma that has formed. Probable large but dormant sac. The defect in the ear drum is seen and indicated with the black arrow. Group 2 included 31 patients with extensive disease within the mastoid cavity proper.

35 mastoid cholesteatoma.