CHOLESTEROL GRANULOMA IN MIDDLE EAR AND MASTOID. A CASE REPORT

Dr.P.VITHAL PRASAD; Dr. M. ANANTHA SATYANARAYANA; Dr. SUSRITHA.K; Dr. K. BALA TEJA

Volume : IV, Issue : V, May - 2015

CHOLESTEROL GRANULOMA IN MIDDLE EAR AND MASTOID. A CASE REPORT

Dr. P. Vithal Prasad, Dr. M. Anantha Satyanarayana, Dr. Susritha. K, Dr. K. Bala Teja

Abstract :

Cholesterol granuloma is a rare clinical entity involving formation of inflammatory granulation tissue in response to the deposits of cholesterol crystals. cholesterol crystals act like a foreign body and evoke inflammatory response. It can involve any part of temporal bone but mostly petrous apex is affected. Here with we are reporting a case of chronic suppurative otitis media with Cholesterol granuloma involvning attic and mastoid tip. Cholesterol granuloma is an incidental intraoperative finding. He was treated with modified radical mastoidectomy with tympanic memane foot plate assembly with good result.