[The retrospect and analysis of the clinical diagnosis and therapy for congenital cholesteatoma of temporal bone].

Objective: To discuss the diagnosis and the therapy methods of congenital temporal bone cholesteatoma.

Method: Reviewing and analyzing the clinical data and information about 16 cases of congenital temporal bone patients from 1980 to 2002.

Result: The surgery were proceeded for removing cholesteatoma focus in all patients and the diagnosing were made by histopathologic investigation.