Congenital Cholesteatoma
9 Congenital Cholesteatoma Congenital cholesteatoma is cholesteatoma that occurs in a child, behind an intact tympanic membrane.1 Congenital cholesteatoma is thought to arise from an epithelial rest that gets trapped…
The Meatus and Cavity Management
5 The Meatus and Cavity Management ♦ Cholesteatoma The external auditory meatus is often not given its due importance in discussions of ear disease and ear surgery. The meatus is…
Situations That Arise at Surgery: Hearing Issues
7 Situations That Arise at Surgery: Hearing Issues This chapter and the previous one address the unique situations that arise during cholesteatoma surgery. The prior chapter dealt with anatomical factors…
Complications of the Surgery
12 Complications of the Surgery The complications of cholesteatoma surgery relate to recurrence, residual, or recidivism of the disease, infection, cavity management, and loss of the specialized functions of the…
Basic and Clinical Concepts of Congenital Anomalies of the Cornea, Sclera, and Globe
Figure 9-1 A, Complete cryptophthalmos, both eyes. B, Incomplete cryptophthalmos of the right eye, with eyelid fused to cornea superonasally. Cryptophthalmos occurs in both an isolated and a recessive syndromic…
Treatment of Ocular Surface Disorders
The corneal epithelium is a highly differentiated cell type that is entirely regenerated approximately every 7 days. In the mechanically abraded cornea (eg, total epithelial debridement during vitrectomy surgery or…
Ocular Immunology
Effective immune responses to foreign antigens require cells to “traffic” through tissues. Chemokines (chemotactic cytokines) are critical mediators that provide the trafficking signals to immune cells. These are low-molecular-weight proteins,…
Head and Neck Pathology
FIGURE 11.1 Nasopalatine Duct Cyst, 200×. The cyst is lined by a ciliated pseudostratified cuboidal to the low columnar epithelium (inset lower left, 400×) with underlying fibroconnective tissue and a prominent…
Head and Neck Radiology
FIGURE 12.1 Mondini Malformation. (A) Axial CT demonstrates incomplete partitioning of the mid and apical turn of the right cochlea with deficient modiolus (arrow). (B) Axial CT one slice superior demonstrates…
Oral Surgery
FIGURE 10.1 Placement of the Needle in Greater Palatine Foramen for a Greater Palatine Nerve Lock. GP, Greater palatine. (The Anatomical Basis of Dentistry; 2011. Applied Anatomy, fig. 11.7, pii: B978-0-323-06807-9.00011-9.) •…
