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Management of partial post-traumatic auricular defects

Thesis

Last updated: 06 Feb 2023

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Surgery

Advisors

El-Sharqawi, Ahmad G. , Atta, Ahmad T. , Helmi, Hatem

Authors

Abbas, Shaymaa Mussttafa

Accessioned

2017-04-26 12:34:21

Available

2017-04-26 12:34:21

type

M.Sc. Thesis

Abstract

Auricular reconstruction is one of the most difficult challenge of the plastic surgery because the nature of its structure and the complexity of its form. In this study the majority of cases were partial ear defects they represented 85% of the cases .There were male predominance than the females which may be due to the exposure of male to violence more than females. Acquired partial ear defects may be as upper, middle or lower third defects .In this study they were 17 cases and all were repaired by postauricular flap. The flap used was raised as axial flap (containing the posterior auricular artery) this made it could be raised as superiorly or inferiorly based flap to cover different sites and size of ear defects. This flap made the reconstructive procedure simpler and of shorter duration being only as one stage repair. It did not show any flap necrosis or sloughing and also with no donor site morbidities. The cases of totally amputated ear in this study were two cases and they were presented without the amputated part therefore no attempts of ear reimplantation was tried .These cases were repaired in two stages. First stage was to insert the carved cartilage in the formed pocket in the postauricular region and the second stage was done after three weeks to separate the cartilage from its bed and the raw area was covered by full thickness graft from the contralateral post auricular region. This type of repair was done in few cases and so we need further work to asses this type of repair.

Issued

1 Jan 2009

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.21473/iknito-space/33078

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Thesis

Created At

28 Jan 2023