Abstract
In 2017, the European Academy of Otology and Neurotology and the Japanese Otological Society published Joint Consensus Statements on the Definitions, Classification and Staging of Middle Ear Cholesteatoma. The aim of this work is an application of the new classification system at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery of the University Hospital Hradec Králové.
Authors retrospectively revised a group of patients who underwent surgery for chronic otitis media with cholesteatoma in years 2013-2017. A total of 104 patients, 56 males and 48 females, were enrolled in the study.
New cholesteatoma classification systems have potential to build unified database of patients with chronic suppurative otitis media with cholesteatoma. It will be certainly a benefit to continue to prospectively expand the database.