The ADC value of postoperative middle ear cleft cholesteatoma is significantly lower than that of noncholesteatomatous tissue and has good accuracy for detecting cholesteatoma.
Within the limits of our longitudinal study, we have shown that by monitoring with non-echoplanar diffusion weighted imaging, cholesteatoma can progress or regress when left untreated by surgery. The greatest progression was recorded in the craniocaudal direction.
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