Auricle Reconstruction Combined with Tympanoplasty and Canaloplasty for Congenital Aural Atresia
Danni Wang
Shouqin Zhao
Haijiang Dai
Xiaobo Ma
Yi Li
Shubin Chen
Haishan Long
Xinping Hao
Lin Yang
Ran Ren
Abstract：Objectives To discuss the advantages of an integrated protocol for auricle reconstruction combined with hearing recon-struction. Methods We retrospectively analyzed the clinical information and follow-up results of 287 cases (287 ears) of con-genital aural atresia with microtia who underwent auricle reconstruction combined with hearing reconstruction in recent 10 years in Tongren Hospital. Results Among all 287 cases, 282 ears were closed by primary healing. The other 5 ears were suc-cessfully reconstructed with revision surgeries without graft failure complications. The three-dimensional profiles were well de-fined in 244 ears. Total satisfaction rate was 85.0%. After the surgery, 222 cases obtained a hearing improvement of at least 20 dB HL, and 62.24% of the cases remained the level during the follow-up period. Conclusions Auricle reconstruction com-bined with hearing reconstruction can help patients with microtia to obtain practical hearing improvement as well as cosmetic improvement. The integrated procedures can facilitate the incision design and obtain a natural-looking three-dimensional shape of the reconstruction auricle.
Keywords：Microtiatympanoplastyauricle reconstruction
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 485-487 )