| 1. | These aims are conflicting and this makes cholesteatoma surgery extremely challenging.
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| 2. | In other words, the aims of cholesteatoma treatment form a hierarchy.
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| 3. | The general objective of cholesteatoma surgery has two parts.
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| 4. | The paramount objective is the complete removal of cholesteatoma.
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| 5. | Collapse or retraction of the eardrum can cause conductive hearing loss or cholesteatoma.
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| 6. | Surgical removal is required once a cholesteatoma has formed.
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| 7. | Once the debris is cleared, cholesteatoma can give rise to a number of appearances.
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| 8. | In addition, cholesteatoma inadvertently left by a surgeon usually regrows as an epidermal cyst.
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| 9. | Some conditions are amenable to surgical intervention such as middle ear fluid, cholesteatoma, otosclerosis.
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| 10. | The need to fully remove a progressive disease like cholesteatoma is the surgeon's first priority.
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