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.

Analysis of incidence and genetic predisposition of preauricular sinus

“…The incidence of preauricular sinus is more common among the Black and Asian population than the Caucasian population [5,12]. The incidence of preauricular sinus is 0.1-0.9% in the United States and 0.9% in England [13], while it is 1.2-2.5% in China [3,10,14] and 4-10% in Africa [15].…”

A systematic review on the surgical outcome of preauricular sinus excision techniques

“…Overall DoE was H in 17 studies (Table ). Twenty‐two studies scoring M and five studies scoring L DoE were excluded. Three H DoE studies were not included due to a lack of accurate determinant (surgical technique) description.…”