Sometimes, skin cells inside your ear can do this and cause a lump called a cholesteatoma. The lump typically starts deep in your ear near your eardrum and grows toward your middle and inner ear.

Cholesteatoma is a nonneoplastic lesion of the middle ear space or mastoid that is histologically ... Washington, DC: American Registry of Pathology; 2000.p. 423–425.

A cholesteatoma is an abnormal skin growth that can develop in the middle ear. It usually begins as a collection of dead skin cells and develops into a cyst-like pocket behind the eardrum.

Chronic inflammation of the middle ear can cause several problems and complications that can affect a person's hearing and balance. One such problem is the formation of a cholesteatoma ...

Cholesteatoma typically presents with a chronic intermittent or constant otorrhoea affecting one ear, which is usually not painful. Often the patient will also notice that the hearing has been poor ...

Dr. Jane Lea, MD, FRCSC, Otologist/Neurotologist, Paediatric Otolaryngologist discusses Cholesteatoma of the Ear and Surgery 5 takeaways from Trump’s Army parade Americans are suffering from ...

But as the cholesteatoma grows larger it may cause serious complications such as damage to the eardrum and bones inside the middle ear and facial paralysis. A: Cholesteatoma usually does not cause ...

You may also find yourself dealing with chronic ear infections because bacteria continually makes its way inside the tear. Another complication that could develop is a cholesteatoma, which is a ...

A nationwide Swedish study including more than 10,000 cases of cholesteatoma, a lesion in the middle ear, shows a strong hereditary component to the disease. The current study is a case-controlled ...