Treatment of a giant congenital hairy nevus of the ear.
A split-thickness skin graft from the abdomen was successfully used to resurface the entire auricle following full-thickness excision of a congenital nevocellular nevus. We found no previous report describing the use of skin grafts to successfully resurface the entire ear and achieve an acceptable aesthetic result.
D000005:Abdomen; D002648:Child; D004428:Ear Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D004431:Ear, External / Q000601:surgery*; D004954:Esthetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009508:Nevus, Pigmented / Q000601:surgery*; D016038:Skin Transplantation