Upon reaching the posterolateral wall of the attic further expansion of the cholesteatoma is deflected superiorly toward the aditus ad antrum and mastoid antrum.
Attic and antrum of ear.
The middle ear or middle ear cavity also known as tympanic cavity or tympanum plural.
It contains the three auditory ossicles whose purpose is to transmit sound vibrations from.
The mastoid antrum tympanic antrum antrum mastoideum valsalva s antrum is an air space in the petrous portion of the temporal bone communicating posteriorly with the mastoid cells and anteriorly with the epitympanic recess of the middle ear via the aditus to mastoid antrum entrance to the mastoid antrum.
The antrum communicates behind and below with the mastoid air cells which vary considerably in number size and form.
The aim of the study was to describe this surgical technique and its indications and to analyse long term outcomes.
The scutum and lateral attic wall were the most common bony erosions in the middle ear bony wall 64 3 and the incus was the most eroded ossicle in the middle ear 88 2.
The antrum and mastoid air cells.
Several techniques have been described with variable recurrence rates.
Aditus is an opening through which the attic communicates with the antrum.
Tympanums tympana is an air filled chamber in the petrous part of the temporal bone.
At ĭ ko an trot ah me surgical exposure of the epitympanic recess attic and mastoid antrum.
Sclerosing of mastoid air cells were encountered in 60 7 of patients and the lateral semicircular canal was affected in 9 while facial canal erosion was found in 21 4.
As the cholesteatoma fills the aditus ad antrum the adjacent lateral semicircular canal is at risk.
It is separated from the external ear by the tympanic membrane and from the inner ear by the medial wall of the tympanic cavity.
Attic exposure and antrumexclusion ae ae is an on demand surgical technique for the treatment of cholesteatoma.
Middle ear cavity the cavity of the middle ear is a narrow air filled space.
The aditus to mastoid antrum otomastoid foramen or entrance or aperture to the mastoid antrum is a large irregular cavity that leads backward from the epitympanic recess into a considerable air space named the tympanic or mastoid antrum.
Facial nerve courses just below the aditus.
A slight constriction divides it into an upper and a lower chamber the tympanum tympanic cavity proper below and the epitympanum above.
These air spaces function as sound receptors provide voice resonance act as.
Terolateral portion of the attic and then through the aditus ad antrum towards the antrum and the mastoid air cells10.
