Surgical results of two-stage reconstruction of the auricle in congenital microtia using an autogenous costal cartilage alone or combined with canaloplasty

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 936-947

  Cho, Byung Chae ^a   Lee, Sang Heun ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CANAL; AUTOGRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; DRAIN; EAR MALFORMATION; EAR RECONSTRUCTION; EAR SURGERY; EXTERNAL EAR MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MICROTIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB CARTILAGE; SKIN GRAFT; CARTILAGE; CHILD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONVALESCENCE; EXTERNAL EAR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARTILAGE; CHILD; EAR CANAL; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 33645737126     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000200612.62079.59     Document Type: Article

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