Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
CHOLESTEATOMA
Gabrielle Smith
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Defined by Friedmann in 1959 as a cystic structure covered with stratified squamous epithelium that leans over a fibrous stroma containing some elements from the original mucous membrane
As time pasts, doctors found that a cholesteatoma is formed due to the continuing of middle ear infections, also known as Otitis Media and the dysfunction of a persons Eustachian tube over a period of time.
Symptoms
If a child has a Cholesteatoma,
they may have all or some of these symptoms:
Cholesteatomas form a cysts or sacs that shed skin into the middle ear space.
15dB up to 60dB is how much hearing may be lost and is usually more affective with low pitch sounds rather than high pitched