Ct is required for preoperative planning reconstruction of ossicles if needed and to exclude perforation of the bony tegmen.
Attic cholesteatoma ct.
Table 2shows the location of cholesteatoma.
Ct is the modality of choice for diagnostic assessment of cholesteatomas due to its ability to demonstrate the bony anatomy of the temporal bone in exquisite detail.
Table 2 location and extant of cholesteatoma.
Cholesteatomas appear as regions of soft tissue attenuation exerting mass effect and resulting in bony erosion.
Upon reaching the posterolateral wall of the attic further expansion of the cholesteatoma is deflected superiorly toward the aditus ad antrum and mastoid antrum.
Findings are characteristic of an acquired cholesteatoma.
Extensive holotympanic acquired cholesteatoma was the most common found in 32 14 of patients followed by attic cholesteatoma found in 28 6 of patients.
As the cholesteatoma fills the aditus ad antrum the adjacent lateral semicircular canal is at risk.
The mass extends superiorly into the attic and appears to have eroded through the tegmentum as well as through the fallopian canal of the facial nerve and perhaps the lateral semicircular canal.