Postpunction cholesteatoma of the spinal cord (lat. Cholesteatoma spinae postpunctionis) is a long-familiar surgical condition. You may have heard this wording many times if you had a complication after appendicitis or other similar operations. But let’s also take into account the fact that many people undergo surgery in their lives, so the likelihood of the author encountering this disease firsthand is quite high. I have observed several similar cases (at least I saw understanding nurses and thoughtful doctors). In these patients, the diagnosis is formulated rather incomprehensibly, but if you plan (or perhaps run through it) as a diagnostic formulation, then, of course, the patients will understand very well what they are being told. Because they know it like the back of their hand. Turning to Lopatin’s Russian language dictionary, the following definition of the term states: “Cholesteatoma of the spinal cord is a bubble formed in it with pus, or simply a closed cavity, usually located in the thoracic or lumbar spine.” A vesicle (vacuole) represents the formation of aseptic inflammation. It will be a different matter with many audiences who are more familiar with the diagnostic term. Even though a birthmark (the medical name for a pigment spot, different from ordinary