A 28-year-old woman with a 5-year history of chronic suppurative otitis media and conductive hearing loss undergoes high-resolution CT temporal bone. The scan shows a mass in the middle ear eroding the long process of the malleus and stapes superstructure. What is the most common ossicle eroded in cholesteatoma?

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