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Local Flaps in Facial Reconstruction

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Auricle/Pinna

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Partial Thickness

  1. 1.

    Healing by secondary intention

  2. 2.

    Skin graft

Partial Thickness/Full Thickness

  1. 1.

    Revolving door flap

  2. 2.

    Postauricular island flap

  3. 3.

    Postauricular transposition flap

Antihelix/Helix

Partial Thickness

  1. 1.

    Healing by secondary intention (antihelix)

  2. 2.

    Skin graft (antihelix)

Full Thickness

  1. 1.

    Wedge excision

  2. 2.

    Helical rim advancement

  3. 3.

    Two-stage postauricular flap

Triangular Fossa

  1. 1.

    Healing by secondary intention

  2. 2.

    Skin graft

  3. 3.

    Superiorly based preauricular flap

Posterior Surface of Pinna

  1. 1.

    Healing by secondary intention

  2. 2.

    Primary closure

  3. 3.

    Skin graft

  4. 4.

    Advancement flap

Lobule

  1. 1.

    Primary closure

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Ilankovan, V., Ethunandan, M., Seah, T.E. (2015). Auricle/Pinna. In: Local Flaps in Facial Reconstruction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08479-4_9

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