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How can a benign tumor of the middle ear lead to brain infection?

April 26, 2017Benign brain ear infection lead middle tumor

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How can a benign tumor of the middle ear lead to brain infection?

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The cholesteatoma contains an enzyme that eats away at bone. It can attack the mastoid bone, which separates the ear and the brain and which is very thin. Brain infection is not a common result of a cholesteatoma, but it does happen in especially severe cases.