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R Feinmesser1, H Ungar, J Adler
1Department of Otolaryngology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
The American Journal of Otology
|September 1, 1988
Abstract:
To improve treatment of otic cholesteatoma, a model is needed for conduction of experiments. In the search for such a model, we have found cholesteatoma to occur naturally in Psammomys obesus. We present these findings and suggest the fat sand rat as a model for investigating cholesteatoma.
