The term cholesteatoma is actually a misnomer since the lesion is not a neoplasm and does not contain cholesterol.
The primary lesion in the differential diagnosis with cholesterol granuloma is cholesteatoma.
The Unique site providing list of MISNOMERs in Different Medical Specialities
Misnomers in Medicine
- Anaesthesilogy (3)
- Anatomy (1)
- Dermatology (15)
- Forensic Medicine (1)
- Medicine (31)
- Microbiology (3)
- Obstetrics (2)
- Oncology (3)
- Ophthalmology (2)
- Orthopaedics (4)
- Otolaryngology (5)
- Pathology (8)
- Pediatrics (5)
- Pharmacology (1)
- Physiology (1)
- Surgery (17)
No comments:
Post a Comment