Open AccessPseudocyst of auricle — etiopathogenesis, treatement update and literature review
Author(s) -
T. Ramadass,
Gopi Ayyaswamy
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2231-3796
pISSN - 0973-7707
DOI - 10.1007/bf03050773
Subject(s) - medicine , otorhinolaryngology , pinna , auricle , incidence (geometry) , gold standard (test) , modalities , surgery , head and neck , treatment modality , retrospective cohort study , head and neck surgery , general surgery , dermatology , radiology , social science , physics , sociology , optics
Pseudocyst of the pinna, a benign idiopathic cystic swelling is an uncommon condition. In the medline search there are over 113 cases reported in literature. Engel in 1966 reported the incidence in Chinese community. In this review article we describe the etiopathogenesis, demographic statistics and treatment modalities.This is a retrospective study of six cases treated by the senior author in the dept of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Apollo Hospital Chennai, South India between 1993 through 2003. There is preponderance of incidence in adult male (5 cases) and a single case in a female. The author highlights the modalities of treatment and opines that the surgical technique described by Lim et al, with little modification is the gold standard, which retains the architecture of the pinna. Conservative methods adopted by others have failed.