Acrobatic ears: a cause of petrified auricles.
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.
Lari
A A
AA
Departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait.
al-Rabah
N
N
Dashti
H
H
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*