title: Acrobatic ears: a cause of petrified auricles.
abstract: Calcified ear cartilages are rarely encountered and only 12 histologically proven cases have been documented. The case presented is of ossified auricles in a teenager and has many interesting features. Acrobatic manipulation of the auricles as a cause of the lesion was one of the distinguishing features.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Lari
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: al-Rabah
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dashti
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004425:Ear Cartilage / Q000473:pathology; D004426:Ear Deformities, Acquired / Q000209:etiology*; D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D004431:Ear, External; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009999:Ossification, Heterotopic / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000150:complications*