title: Congenital auricular and preauricular sinuses in childhood.
abstract: Congenital auricular and preauricular sinuses, while seemingly trivial and often unnoticed or ignored, can give rise to troublesome symptoms if infection supervenes. Nine of 30 patients (30%) operated upon between 1969 and 1981 had postoperative recurrence, two of whom required two excisions. We would recommend aggressive treatment of infection followed by excision in 2-3 weeks before further infection can occur.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004431:Ear, External / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn