One size fits all: A surgical technique for the correction of all types of prominent ears

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 190-197

  Chait, Laurence ^b   Nicholson, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARTILAGINOUS TISSUE; EAR CARTILAGE; EXTERNAL EAR; HUMAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMINENT EAR; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

DECISION TREES; EAR CARTILAGES; EAR, EXTERNAL; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0032979533     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199907000-00028     Document Type: Article

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