BACKGROUND: Favorable results in auricular reconstruction are difficult to achieve. The authors report 350 patients with different types of microtia who underwent total ear reconstruction. The younges...
Five microtic and aural atretic ears associated with intractable retroauricular abscess unresponsive to conservative treatment are reported. The pathogenesis of this abscess is primary cholesteatoma c...
OBJECTIVE: To study the difference in the facial canal anatomy in terms of the severity of microtia and deformity of the middle ear in patients with microtia using high-resolution computed tomography ...
BACKGROUND: Ear reconstruction for congenital microtia is a challenge for the plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Ten percent of microtia cases are bilateral. However, the published literature contain...
Management of microtia can be one of the most rewarding yet humbling challenges faced by the reconstructive surgeon. The preferred method of total auricular reconstruction is with autologous cartilage...
Microtia patients encountered over 9 years from 1978 to 1986 were listed. The total number of patients for the period was 155, 113 males and 42 females. The microtia occurred on the right side in 93 c...