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- Title
Otoplasty: An Analysis of Technique Over a 33-Year Period.
- Authors
Fred J. Stucker; Neil M. Vora; Timothy S. Lian
- Abstract
OBJECTIVETo compare the merits of otoplasty technique with a diverse patient population as experienced spanning a period greater 30 years.STUDY DESIGNA review of a series of otoplasty cases that occurred in two distinctly different clinical settings during a 33-year period.METHODSA retrospective analysis of 211 patients undergoing otoplasty from 1969 to 1982 in a military hospital setting was compared with 118 patients receiving otoplasty from 1982 to 2002 in a university/private practice setting. The patient population consisted of 180 adults and 149 children.RESULTSOtoplasty patients in the military setting were primarily adults, whereas those in the university/private practice setting were primarily children. In the adult population, 98.9% of patients required use of lateral conchal cartilage resection combined with a mattress suture technique. In the pediatric population, all patients required use of a mattress suture technique and in 83.2% of selected cases limited lateral conchal cartilage resection was required.CONCLUSIONOtoplasty technique involving lateral conchal cartilage resection, mattress suture fixation, or a combination of both is applicable to diverse patient populations.
- Subjects
OTOPLASTY; CARTILAGE
- Publication
Laryngoscope, 2003, Vol 113, Issue 6, p952
- ISSN
0023-852X
- Publication type
Article