Surgical Correction of the Abnormally Protruding Ear

The Anterior-Posterior Otoplasty

“…Mattress sutures of 4-0 polyglactin 910 (Vicryl) were then used for fixation, routinely overcorrecting the medial deflection by 5°to 10° (Figure 1, D). 6,7 Superior-directed, mastoidconchal sutures were occasionally required to rotate the auricle and medialize a lateral concha cymba.…”

“…Elliot 6 considered a distance greater than 2.0 cm from mastoid to helix at midauricle to be abnormal. The normal auriculomastoid angle is often estimated at about 30°, 7 and, at the level of the upper insertion point of the ear, Davis 8 defined protrusion over 40°as beyond the 95th percentile.…”

“…Otoplasty for prominauris has 2 principal technical components, the helical and conchal corrections, for which both anterior and posterior approaches have been preferred by different surgeons over the past century. [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] This report describes the anterior-posterior otoplasty, a combination technique for auricular retraction and rotation based on earlier procedures that allows graded control of helical and conchal angulation by the application of mattress sutures across areas of weakened or excised cartilage.…”

The Becker Technique for Otoplasty: Modified and Revisited With Long‐Term Outcomes

“…1 Many surgical techniques have been described to correct protruding ears. 2–14 Among these studies, very few have had follow‐up beyond the immediate postoperative period. Only four publications in the English language have examined the long‐term (more than 1 year) results of the various surgical techniques for correction of lop ear deformity.…”

Komplikationen der Ohrmuschelanlegeplastik

“…Die Ohrmuschelanlegeplastik zählt allerdings auch zum operativen Repertoire einer Reihe anderer Fachdisziplinen: Kinderchirurgie, Kiefer− und Gesichtschirurgie, plastische Chirurgie und gelegent− lich auch der Allgemeinchirurgie [15, 43, 45, 53 ± 55, 61, 62, 66]. Entsprechend umfangreich ist daher auch die jeweilige Fachlite− ratur über Operationstechniken und Modifikationen [10,75,79,80,109]. Es fällt auf, dass in der überwiegenden Mehrzahl der Pu− blikationen meist erfolgreiche Operationsverfahren mit ausge− zeichneten Ergebnissen vorgestellt werden, während Komplika− tionen und Misserfolge nur selten Erwähnung finden [1,8,9,84].…”