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Prominent Ear Akira Yamada Arun K. Gosain DEFINITION Prominent ears are a common abnormality, affecting about 5% of children. When observing other people’s faces, the first thing we pay attention…

Eyelid Coloboma Adam R. Sweeney Christopher B. Chambers DEFINITION Eyelid coloboma (plural: colobomata) is a congenital anomaly arising from developmental interruption of the eyelid folds causing an eyelid cleft in…

Cryptotia Akira Yamada Arun K. Gosain DEFINITION/ANATOMY Cryptotia is a relatively rare congenital ear deformity. The upper portion of the auricular cartilage is partially buried beneath the skin on the…

Constricted Ear Akira Yamada Julia Corcoran DEFINITION AND ANATOMY The concept of constricted ear was proposed by Tanzer.1 The helix and scapha are hooded, and the body and crura of…

Stahl Ear Akira Yamada Arun K. Gosain DEFINITION Stahl ear was first described by Binder in 1889.1 Stahl ear is a congenital auricular malformation in which an abnormal third crus…

Auricular Reconstruction for Microtia and Post-traumatic Deformities Charles H. Thorne DEFINITION Microtia literally means small ear but is used to refer to a spectrum of auricular anomalies (FIG 1) that…

Fat Grafting for Nerve Entrapment Within Burn Scars C. Scott Hultman Yuen-Jong Liu DEFINITION Mortality from burn injury has markedly decreased in the second half of the 20th century as…

Laser Burn Scar Revision C. Scott Hultman Yuen-Jong Liu DEFINITION Mortality from burn injury has markedly decreased in the second half of the 20th century as wound sepsis, wound coverage,…

Vascular Lesions Benjamin C. Garden Jerome M. Garden DEFINITION Vascular lesions can be classified into two main categories: proliferative and malformations.1 Vascular proliferative lesions are characterized by a proliferation of…

Pressure Injuries Lawrence J. Gottlieb Maureen Beederman DEFINITION A pressure injury is a soft tissue injury due to the complex interplay of tissue deformation, stress, strain and ischemia from unrelieved…