Chondrodermatitis nodularis helices

A condition that causes tenderness and ulceration of the helix or antihelix due to chronic pressure on the ear

Tx

Pressure avoidence

Bullous myringitis

serous liquid-filled blisters on the tympanic membrane

Cholesteatoma

NOT Cholesterol or any kind of lipid deposition !!!

collecitons of squamous cell debris that form a round, pearly mass behind the tympanic membrane in the middle ear.

either congenital or secondary to infection, trauma, or surgery of the middle ear

due to chronic negative pressure in the middle ear causing retraction pockets in the tympanic membrane that become cystic; as the squamous cell debris accumulates, a cholesteatoma is formed..

Secondary cholesteatomas occur after squamous epithelium migrates to or is implanted in the middle ear ("skin in the wrong place")

Cholesterol granulomas can form in the middle ear after hemorrhage but are much less common than cholesteatomas.

They appear as bluish-black gelatinous material behind the TM.

Cerumen impaction

liquid or hard wax in auditory canal obstruction eardrum visualization

Hemotympanum

Purple or red eardrum with or without bulging