Auricle
Various auricular reconstructions including the congenital anomaly such as microtia and the acquired defect and otoplasty are managed.
Microtia
As a treatment, it is necessary to perform
an operation more than 2 times ideally
around 10 year-old. Finally, it becomes
almost natural-looking ear in appearance.
The costal cartilages taken from the
patient's breast are changed into the shape
of the auricle and grafted. Because the skin is not sufficient to cover the costal
cartilages in shape of the ear, we have to
consider the skin coverage method, We
select it among two operation methods.1)
Expander method: we perform the skin
expansion before the cartilage graft, which
is excellent in the color match and also
maintain the sensibility. 2) Modified Nagata
method: we perform the cartilage graft
first, after more than 3 months ear
elevation with skin graft is performed.
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Expander method
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full expansion
harvested costal cartilage framework -
post operative 1year