Innovative Usage of Accessory Auricles as Full-thickness Skin Graft

Accessory auricles are relatively rare malformations arising from the first branchial arch which contains skin, fat and cartilage. The treatment is usually surgical removal for the cosmetic purpose. We are sharing our experience of utilising the accessory auricle skin as full thickness graft for pos...

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Autores principales: Subbarayan, Elankumar, Chittoria, Ravikumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5782439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29403186
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JCAS.JCAS_70_17
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description Accessory auricles are relatively rare malformations arising from the first branchial arch which contains skin, fat and cartilage. The treatment is usually surgical removal for the cosmetic purpose. We are sharing our experience of utilising the accessory auricle skin as full thickness graft for post.burn reconstruction of the fingers contracture of a child. Even though this type of association is rare, it is an innovative idea following Sir Harold Gilles’ principle ‘Never throw anything away’.
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spelling pubmed-57824392018-02-05 Innovative Usage of Accessory Auricles as Full-thickness Skin Graft Subbarayan, Elankumar Chittoria, Ravikumar J Cutan Aesthet Surg Case Report Accessory auricles are relatively rare malformations arising from the first branchial arch which contains skin, fat and cartilage. The treatment is usually surgical removal for the cosmetic purpose. We are sharing our experience of utilising the accessory auricle skin as full thickness graft for post.burn reconstruction of the fingers contracture of a child. Even though this type of association is rare, it is an innovative idea following Sir Harold Gilles’ principle ‘Never throw anything away’. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5782439/ /pubmed/29403186 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JCAS.JCAS_70_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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