Fibro-Plastic Tumours of the Ear-Lobes

Plastic Surgery of the Ear

Glomus and other tumours of the ear

The glomus jugulare is a collection of ganglionic tissue within the temporal bone in close relation with the jugular bulb. The first description of this tissue were probably by Valentin (1840), who described his 'ganglia tympanica', and Krause (1878), his 'glandula tympanica'. Both writers described ganglionic-like tissue, but the credit for recognizing the histological relationship to the caro...

WHO histological classification of tumours of the ear

[Clinical characteristics of malignant tumours originating in the external ear].

BACKGROUND Skin tumours that originate in the external ear are common in individuals with type 1 skin and phenotype 1 and 2. The skin cancer is associated with chronic or intermittent, but intense sunlight. The most common malignant tumour is basal cell carcinoma, followed by squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma. The diagnosis of squamous cell skin cancer in head and neck area is usually made i...

The plastic ear and perceptual relearning in auditory spatial perception

The auditory system of adult listeners has been shown to accommodate to altered spectral cues to sound location which presumably provides the basis for recalibration to changes in the shape of the ear over a life time. Here we review the role of auditory and non-auditory inputs to the perception of sound location and consider a range of recent experiments looking at the role of non-auditory inp...