INTRODUCTION The ear is a high-risk location for skin cancer due to frequent sun exposure. The ear’s anatomical features, such as thin skin overlying cartilage, minimal subcutaneous tissue, and close proximity to subcutaneous lymphatic channels, confer increased risk of invasion and metastasis. Cutaneous neoplasms of the ear are common, and the auricle is the third most common site for basal ce...

Introduction Loss of an auricle may be due to congenital disease, trauma, or surgical removal of benign or malignant tumors. Auricular defects can be repaired, or reconstructed with autogenous tissue, but this may be unsuitable in many situations. Additionally the use of autogenous tissues requires harvesting a graft there by adding a surgical site. A good alternative is to develop an auricular...

The association and proportions between the structures in the face and head is a subject of interest for scientists as well as artists since renaissance. Auricle is one of these structures that have an important place in beauty measures, besides its function in hearing. The external ear begins to develop around the dorsal end of the first branchial cleft during the sixth week of gestation. The ...

IMAGES location apart from the predilection sites because of its nature of having no clinical symptoms or diagnostic characteristics. We report a rare case of angioleiomyoma on the antihelix of the left ear and a review of the literature on such tumors. A 58-year-old woman was referred to our clinic for excision of a mass on the antihelix of her left ear. The patient gave a history of noticing ...

A keloid is one of the most frustrating clinical problems in wound healing. Keloids form following dermal injury and exhibit exuberant and indefinite growth of collagen. Many theories have been propounded in trying to explain some of the vagaries of keloids. From one of the theories, keloid scars may develop at any age; patients between 10 and 30 years of age (reproductive age) are the most aff...

Total ear reconstruction in the postburn auricle is one of the most challenging procedures for plastic surgeons. Adverse factors associated with these procedures include reduced or damaged blood supply, poor elasticity of scar tissue, increased risk of infection, and the possible destruction of skin, temporoparietal fascia, or retroauricular fascia. In cases where patients are severely burned, ...

The biometric identification of persons became a very important problem nowadays. Various aspects of criminality, and lately terrorism, forced us to increase the financial outlays allocated for safety measures based on biometrics. Fingerprints and face are the most popular biometric features. However, new modalities are still desirable (moreover, nowadays the usage of multimodal systems becomes...