The current progress of clinical therapy for prominent ear
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1009-4598.2019.01.019
- VernacularTitle: 招风耳畸形的临床治疗进展
- Author:
Fengfeng GUO
1
;
Xiaobo YU
;
Haiyue JIANG
Author Information
1. Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100144, China
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
Congenital batear;
Operation;
General treatment
- From:
Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery
2019;35(1):84-88
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Domestic and overseas studies onthe prominent eartreatment were reviewed and analyzed.Current progress of clinical therapy for prominent ear was summarized.The uniform clinical diagnosis and therapy of prominent earhave not been determined, due to its complicated and various therapeutic methods and unclear etiology. Reported therapies mainly include: (1)surgical therapy, which attains satisfactory therapeutic effect by adopting improved approaches, i. e. the combination of operations or the innovative methods based on Mustarde′s, Sterstrom′s and Converse′s surgical methods. (2)Non-surgical therapy, including ear splinting or molding, and laser-assisted cartilage reshaping(LACR). The non-surgical therapyisa hot research field, and is going to bepopularizedin the future.Research of etiology and non-surgical treatments may be helpful to provide abetter therapy strategy for prominent ear.
