Cholesteatoma
HardHigh-yieldENT · Ear
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A cholesteatoma is a destructive, expanding "skin in the wrong place" — keratinising stratified squamous epithelium trapped within the middle ear cleft. Despite the misleading name it contains neither cholesterol nor is it a true tumour; it is a high-yield ENT topic because of its relentless bone erosion and life-threatening intracranial complications. Cholesteatoma is the presence of keratinising squamous epithel…
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