Abstract

FIGUEROA HERNANDEZ, Armando J; DE LA PAZ SARDUY, Adalberto  and  DIAZ GONZALEZ, Alejandro. Concomitancia de meningoencefalocele y colesteatomas en el oído medio: Comentarios sobre 1 caso. Rev Cubana cir [online]. 1999, vol.38, n.2, pp. 102-105. ISSN 1561-2945.

The case of a 9-year-old girl with a mastoid meningoencephalocele adhered to a residual cholesteatoma, secondary to a primary petromastoid cholesteatoma, that occupied the whole mastoid cavity up to the external auditory meatus is presented. This patient had been operated on 2 years before 3 pearls of cholesteatoma were also removed from the tympanic cavity that destroyed part of the ossicular chain, and it was necessary to perform a columella with the rest of the malleus. At present, 15 years later, the patient has a good clinical and audiometric evolution

Keywords : ENCEPHALOCELE [complications]; MENINGOCELE [complications]; CHOLESTEATOMA, MIDDLE EAR [surgery].

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