title: [External auditory canal osteoma resulting in cholesteatoma which is complicated with meningitis].
abstract: Osteoma of external auditory canal is a unilateral benign tumor which usually presents with no symptoms. They only cause symptoms when cerumen collection or conduction type hearing loss occurs. They are the most common osseous lesions of the temporal bone. It very rarely presents with cholesteatoma. So far, no osteoma case concomitant with, cholesteatoma and meningitis has not been reported. In this article, we report an interesting case presenting with external auditory canal osteoma, cholestatoma and meningitis concomitantly who was treated successfully using the canal Wall-down mastoidectomy technique.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Medicine Faculty of Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ediz
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yorgancılar
authors.forename: Vefa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kınış
authors.forename: Ramazan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gün
authors.forename: Salih
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bakır
authors.forename: Musa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ozbay
authors.forename: Ismail
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Topçu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001299:Audiometry; D018424:Cholesteatoma, Middle Ear / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D004424:Ear Canal; D004428:Ear Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008416:Mastoid / Q000601:surgery; D008581:Meningitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D010016:Osteoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed