Reconstruction challenges for complicated preauricular sinuses: case reports

Preauricular sinuses and pits are congenital anomalies located in or just front of the ascending limb helix. Even though excising a sinus is relatively minor surgical procedure, recurrence not uncommon if an adequate resection done. Surgery only indicated when it complicated by recurrent infection abscesses. Simple closure may be possible there large tissue defect. In those circumstances local flaps will required to cover this article we report 2 cases which had defect after excision closed with rotational flaps. This provided good cosmetic outlook no recurrences so far. There enough articles published far such kind reconstruction techniques for preauricular defects.