Surgical treatment of external auditory canal cholesteatoma.

Two patients, an 8-year-old female and a 66-year-old male with external auditory canal cholesteatoma involving the anteroinferior bony canal wall were treated surgically. No recurrence of cholesteatoma was noted about 3 years after surgery. A modified radical mastoidectomy was performed and the cholesteatoma was removed with any adjacent dead bone under direct vision. The bony defect was filled with temporal bone fragments and covered with a homograft cartilage plate and temporal fascia.