title: Reconstruction of the inner site of the auricle with two local skin flaps.
abstract: The external auditory canal and the auricular concha were reconstructed with two local skin flaps after resection of a primary adenoid cystic carcinoma of the external auditory canal. The upper part of the inner site of the auricle was covered with a superiorly-based posterior skin flap and the lower part of it with an inferiorly-based anterior one. Both were cutaneous flaps with a random pattern of blood supply. At the same time the surgical field after the flaps had been raised made additional excision easy, including partial mastoidectomy and parotidectomy. After 10 years of the operation auricular disfigurements and recurrence of the tumour are not observed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Teruichi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.forename: Mitinari
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Muraoka
mesh_terms: D003528:Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic / Q000601:surgery; D004424:Ear Canal / Q000601:surgery*; D004428:Ear Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D004431:Ear, External / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods; D013524:Surgical Flaps