title: [Adhesive otitis media with cholesteatoma].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the mechanism of cholesteatoma formation in adhesive otitis media with cholesteartoma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Three cases of this kind of disease were reported and literatures were also reviewed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  1. It is a acquired primary cholesteatoma. 2. The eustachian tube and tympanic isthmus block are the direct cause of these cholesteatoma. 3. CT examination of the temporal bone is more valuable in diagnosis than that of normal X-ray. 4. If the cholesteatoma lesions can be removed completly, tympanoplasty may be performed in first stage or separate stage.
authors.affiliation: First Hospital of Hangzhou, Hangzhou 310006.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018424:Cholesteatoma, Middle Ear / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005064:Eustachian Tube / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014433:Tympanoplasty