Simultaneous and single-sided occurrence of type I first branchial cleft anomaly and ear canal cholesteatoma: a case report

Ewelina Bartkowiak; Małgorzata Wierzbicka

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Postępy w chirurgii głowy i szyi/Advances in Head and Neck Surgery

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2/2021
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Case report

Simultaneous and single-sided occurrence of type I first branchial cleft anomaly and ear canal cholesteatoma: a case report

Ewelina Bartkowiak

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Małgorzata Wierzbicka

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Klinika Otolaryngologii i Onkologii Laryngologicznej, Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu

Postępy w Chirurgii Głowy i Szyi 2021; 2: 37–39

Online publish date: 2021/12/31

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First branchial cleft anomalies are extremly rare and usually associated with the pediatric population, thus constitue a mojor diagnostic problem among adults. First branchial cleft anomaly type I is limited to the external auditory canal and typically occures in adults. Such a dignosis should always raise a suspition of associated cholesteatoma of the external auditory canal (EAC) due to the presence of mechanical barrier in self-cleaning of EAC, which leads to entrapment of epidermal cells and promotes the formation of cholesteatoma.

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Simultaneous and single-sided occurrence of type I first branchial cleft anomaly and ear canal cholesteatoma: a case report

Ewelina Bartkowiak 1 , Małgorzata Wierzbicka 1

first branchial cleft cyst, congenital anomaly, cholesteatoma, external auditory canal

Ewelina Bartkowiak

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Małgorzata Wierzbicka

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