Retraction Pocket Attic

Skin material often accumulates in this pocket and becomes infected causing drainage and potential severe complications.

Retraction pocket attic.

There has been significant bone erosion of the ear canal wall above the eardrum. The present study describes an improved classification system based on otoscopic and endoscopic visualization of the retraction pocket fundus the ossicular status in the attic degree of scutal erosion and the presence or absence of cholesteatoma. Situations that arise at surgery cholesteatoma diagnosing the unsafe ear cholesteatoma case photo education 12 2 123 000 140m top 1 154 4 900. The eardrum comprises two parts the pars tensa which is the main part of the eardrum and the pars flaccida which is a smaller part of the eardrum located above the pars tensa either or both of these parts may become retracted.

1 attic retraction pocket cholesteatoma is clearly visualized white arrow. Stratified squamous epithelium may also be present in the middle ear as other clinical or pathological entities such as metaplastic islands of the mucosa. Tympanic membrane retraction describes a condition in which a part of the eardrum lies deeper within the ear than its normal position. An attic cholesteatoma is defined as an epidermoid cyst found in the attic.

The the photo 3 you can see the uncontrolled retraction pocket in epitympanum. Eardrum is strongly retracted one can not determine the exact position of its banks the destruction of the lateral wall of the attic is larger and the epithelium begins to grow into the back forming the initial stage of cholesteatoma. This is differentiated from an infected retraction pocket of the pars tensa or a retraction pocket cholesteatoma.