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Ear Deformities: Social and Psychological Implications
Clinics in Plastic Surgery, 1978In our culture, abnormalities of the ear tend to be stimuli for undue attention and jokes. For the child with microtic, protruding, or lop ears, for instance, such an abnormality may be a source of intense shame and anguish. To prevent detrimental effects, particularly in children, surgery should be advised and undertaken as soon as possible.
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Deformed Ears and Hearing Loss
Postgraduate Medicine, 1968Infants with deformed ears often do not hear well. Since this loss is conductive, both hearing aids and surgery may help. Infants with one deformed ear should have an audiologic examination at one year, but surgery should not usually be performed until the child is six. If both ears are deformed, the child should have hearing aids early so he can learn
Severin Koop, Arndt J. Duvall
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Correction of Congenital Middle Ear Deformities
Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1967REHABILITATION of children and adults with a loss of hearing due to middle ear malformations has entered a new phase in recent years. The key that has unlocked the door in many of these cases has been the development of the stapedectomy and the use of middle ear prosthetics.
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A New Method of Shaping Deformed Ears
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1951Summary The writer presents a new operative method for the reshaping of shell-ear or lop-ear; i.e. , for use where the fold of the antihelix is absent and the entire fossa helicis is depressed like a scoop and often diminished in size. The method has been tried in some ten cases with fully satisfactory results.
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Ear Deformity Due to Neurofibromatosis Type 1
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2007Neurofibromatosis is an autosomal dominant neurogenetic disorder. It is associated with significant morbidity and results in substantial loss of function as well as significant cosmetic problems. Elephantiasis neurofibromatosa is the most impressive manifestation of the disease because of its size.
Selma Sönmez, Ergün +2 more
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Radiology of congenital deformities of the ear
Head & Neck Surgery, 1980AbstractBy depicting the status of the middle ear beyond atretic canals, multidirectional tomography can materially assist in the planning of surgery for conductive hearing losses. The course of the facial nerve is best demonstrated by the Guillen projection and by lateral projections.
W N, Hanafee, L, Bergstrom
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Pediatrics in review, 1994
External ear deformities by themselves do not require emergent treatment, but associated abnormalities need to be defined to enable long-term planning. The pediatrician can orchestrate the specialists and keep parents and patient informed maximally.
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External ear deformities by themselves do not require emergent treatment, but associated abnormalities need to be defined to enable long-term planning. The pediatrician can orchestrate the specialists and keep parents and patient informed maximally.
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Conchal Transposition Flap for Postburn Ear Deformities
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1989Severe thermal injuries to the external ear often lead to extensive loss of peripheral structures such as helix and lobule but frequently spare the more central parts of the ear, even though they may be grossly deformed by scar contracture. The use of spared conchal structures as a transposition flap in combination with remodeling of the residual ...
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Correction of ear deformities.
Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia, 1992Both traumatic and congenital ear deformities are immensely variable in their presentation and in the surgical problems that they present. However, many of the surgical techniques and principles are applicable to both.
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