BACKGROUND Pedicled flaps based on the posterior auricular artery have been used for small auricular and mastoid cavity defects. OBJECTIVE To precisely define the vascular anatomy and angiosome (cutaneous distribution) of the posterior auricular artery. METHODS A fresh cadaver model was used for 3 separate investigations, studying the posterior auricular artery. Intra-arterial ink injection...

Auricular flutter was first described by McWilliam in 1887 (Mackenzie, 1925) as a result of experimental stimulation. Ritchie (1905) obtained graphic records from the jugular vein, and Jolly and Ritchie (1908) (Mackenzie, loc. cit.) took electrocardiographic tracings from one of Ritchie's cases of auricular flutter. Mackenzie looking back through his old records found cases of auricular flutter...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The mechanical properties of normal auricular cartilage provide a benchmark against which to characterize changes in auricular structure/function due to genetic defects creating phenotypic abnormalities in collagen subtypes. Such properties also provide inputs/targets for auricular reconstruction scaffold design. Several studies report the biomechanical properties for sept...

A preliminary study correlating the wrist and gall bladder body areas with their auricular acupuncture points, through recording the somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) at the corresponding brain localisation, showed that stimulation of the “Wrist” auricular point activates the primary cortical somatosensory area of the upper extremity on the contralateral hemisphere in a similar way to direc...

This study compared the effects of unilateral and bilateral auricular transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on cutaneous pain threshold. Auricular acupuncture points were stimulated with low frequency, high intensity TENS for 45 seconds. Sixty healthy, adult subjects were assigned randomly to one of two treatment groups or to a control group. The two treatment groups received low frequenc...

We tested effects of auricular acupressure on peri- and early postmenopausal women with anxiety (PPWA). Fifty PPWA were randomly assigned to the auricular acupressure group (AG) or the sham group (SG). After 3 meals and before sleep every day for 4 weeks, the AG received auricular acupressure on the bilateral ear shenmen and subcortex points for 3 min per point on alternating ears. The SG recei...

Auricular acupuncture is a method which has been successfully used in various fields of medicine especially in the treatment of pain relief. The introduction of lasers especially low-level lasers into medicine brought besides the already existing stimulation with needles and electricity an additional technique to auricular acupuncture. This literature research looks at the historical background...

OBJECTIVE To observe the regulative effect of auricular acupuncture, moxibustion and Chinese herbs on immunologic function in the D-galactose-induced aging mouse and to probe the feasibility and possible mechanisms for delaying aging, so as to provide experimental basis for acupuncture, moxibustion and Chinese herbs for delaying aging. METHODS Aging mouse model was established by subcutaneous...

it is difficult to reconstruct an alar defect with cartilage involvement. here in the authors report a case of traumatic alar loss during childhood in which an alar reconstruction was carried out with a composite auricular graft put over the pedicle buccal flap which was rotated and passed through the intraoral side. the lining skin and auricular cartilage for the flap was obtained from the aur...

myiasis is the invasion of body tissues of humans and animals by the larvae of the diptera or two-winged flies. there are only sporadic reports in the literature concerning human ear myiasis. a 62-year-old bedridden woman in an intensive care unit was examined because of her intense swollen and erythematous right ear. physical examination revealed 80 live larvae (maggots) in the posterior part ...