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Complications
Since the temporal lobe of the brain lies only a few millimetre’s above the ME system, the enlarging pocket burrows through bone and eventually comes in contact with the dura which ensheaths the temporal lobe of the brain, and can lead to many intracranial complications like meningitis, brain abscess and extradural abscess. The enlarging pocket could also damage the facial nerve passing through the ear causing paralysis of one side of the face, damage the organ of balance causing severe giddiness or affect hearing in the inner ear causing deafness. This type of disease is of the unsafe variety and is diagnosed on finding a perforation in the ‘Parsflaccida’ of the ear drum and known as ‘Attic’ perforation.
