A Post-Auricular Accessory Tragus

Here, we document a rare and unique presentation of an accessory tragus (AT). A 3-year-old male presented with a 2-cm congenital post-auricular mass on his right side. Upon resection and histologic examination, the mass demonstrated histologic features consistent with an AT. To the best of our knowl...

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Autores principales: Gebhard, Michael, Shenoy, Archana, Comer, Julia, Schrepfer, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Otolaryngology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33824798
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13645
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description Here, we document a rare and unique presentation of an accessory tragus (AT). A 3-year-old male presented with a 2-cm congenital post-auricular mass on his right side. Upon resection and histologic examination, the mass demonstrated histologic features consistent with an AT. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of an AT presenting posterior to the auricle.
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spelling pubmed-80121752021-04-05 A Post-Auricular Accessory Tragus Gebhard, Michael Shenoy, Archana Comer, Julia Schrepfer, Thomas Cureus Otolaryngology Here, we document a rare and unique presentation of an accessory tragus (AT). A 3-year-old male presented with a 2-cm congenital post-auricular mass on his right side. Upon resection and histologic examination, the mass demonstrated histologic features consistent with an AT. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of an AT presenting posterior to the auricle. Cureus 2021-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8012175/ /pubmed/33824798 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13645 Text en Copyright © 2021, Gebhard et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Gebhard, Michael
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012175/
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