Abstract
Background: Ear lobe deformity may be congenital ormore often acquired due to trauma, burns or surgery. Losingthem represents an obvious aesthetic abnormality. Its surgicalrepair places a challenge due to the difficulty of obtaining anatural appearing and durable outcome. Several methodsdeveloped to reconstruct this deformity have presented variousadvantages and disadvantages. We present the results of arelatively simple technique to reconstruct ear lobe in a singlestage.Patients and Methods: In this study, we used proximallybased infra auricular flap to reconstruct 5 ear lobes in theperiod from February 2015 to July 2016 in Plastic SurgeryDepartment, Minia University Hospital and private sector.Surgical procedure was performed under local anaesthesia inall cases. Except one case, we followed cases for 6 monthspost-operatively.Results: Mean operative time was 40 minutes. Mean agewas 32 years. All flaps survived. One patient required secondarysutures for partial ear wound dehiscence due to earlyremoval of stitches.Conclusion: The author outlines a simple method forreconstructing the entire lobe in one stage, without grafts,whilst offering a pleasant appearance with minimal donor sitemorbidity. The technique is suggested to reconstruct all casesof ear lobe defects.
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