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The mastoid air cell system represents a more or less extensive system of interconnecting air filled cavities arising from the walls of the mastoid antrum and walls of the middle ear.

Pneumatization of mastoid air cells: role of acquired factors / Neumatizacion de las celulas mastoideas: rol de factores adquiridos

Opponents of mastoidectomy argue that the mastoid air cell system is thought to function, at least in part, as a buffer to the changes in pressure within the middle ear.

Type 1 tympanoplasty with cortical mastoidectomy: results and complications

Holmquist J, Bergstorm B: The mastoid air cell system in ear surgery, Arch Otolaryngol, 1978, 104: 127-9.

Role of cortical mastoidectomy in outcome of myringoplasty in active and quiscent stage of tubotympanic type of chronic suppurative otitis media

Computed tomography (CT) of the temporal bone showed destruction of the inferior wall of the right EAC by a lesion with a soft-tissue density, but the aeration of the mastoid air cell and the middle ear space was normal.

Extensive external auditory canal cholesteatoma in the infratemporal area without mastoid involvement: use of a new surgical technique

Canaloplasty is sufficient for small lesions that do not involve the mastoid air cell.

External auditory canal cholesteatoma: a rare complication of tympanoplasty

INTRODUCTION: The mastoid air cell system forms an important contribution to the middle ear ventilation and acts as a surgitank of air.

A comparative study of plain x-ray mastoids with HRCT temporal bone in patients with chronic suppurative otitis media

The development of the mastoid air cell system begins in utero.

Asymmetric agenesis of the mastoid antrum in a neonate

Opacification of the mastoid air cells was observed.

Management of benign middle ear tumors: A series of 7 cases

The main goals of open cavity mastoidectomy are to completely eradicate the disease, create a large enough meatus for examination and mastoid air cells, and provide a self-cleaning epithelized dry cavity, and achieve maximum hearing.

Meatal obstruction following canal wall down mastoidectomy

Magnetic Resonance Imaging revealed hyperintensity in T1 axial flair and T2 weighted images in both mastoid air cells and petrous apex involving Dorello's canal and Meckel's cave area on right side.

Unusual case--revisited--Gradenigo's syndrome

The areas of the mastoid air cells were measured on preoperative CT scans.

Clinical Characteristics of Chronic Perforated Otitis Media in Different Age Groups

The pre-operative CT scans were reported to assess characteristic cholesteatoma findings, location and extension of soft tissues in middle ear, integrity of scutum, erosion of the ossicular chain, integrity of the thin bony septum of facial nerve canal, the semicircular canals and the tegmenextension of cholesteatoma outside the middle ear, integrity of mastoid air cells, trabeculae, as well as relationship and proximity of soft tissues with the tympanic membrane were assessed.