A 35-year-old man with a 10-year history of chronic suppurative otitis media presents with progressive conductive hearing loss and recent onset vertigo. Imaging shows erosion of the lateral semicircular canal. Which finding would best distinguish this patient's acquired cholesteatoma from a simple chronic otitis media with ossicular erosion?

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