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Acute unilateral hearing loss as an unusual presentation of cholesteatoma

BACKGROUND: Cholesteatomas are epithelial cysts that contain desquamated keratin. Patients commonly present with progressive hearing loss and a chronically discharging ear. We report an unusual presentation of the disease with an acute hearing loss suffered immediately after prolonged use of a pneum...

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Autores principales: Thio, Daniel, Ahmed, Shahzada K, Bickerton, Richard C
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1242223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16168065
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6815-5-9