Auricular dissection method for treatment of preauricular sinus

Abstract

Preauricular sinus is the common congenital disease with tendency for repeated infections. Standard surgical procedure i.e sinusectomy has more recurrence rate so we designed this study to observe the surgical outcome after supra-auricular dissection method. This is the prospective study conducted in Chitwan Medical College. All patients with problematic preauricular sinus were included for this study. All surgeries were done by single surgeon. Surgical outcomes were measured for short and long term duration. Thirty nine patients of all genders with symptomatic preauricular sinus were undergone supraauricular dissection. Majority of cases were unilateral disease, male patients, pits at ascending limb of helix, incision and drainage done previously. No recurrence is seen after this kind of surgery. supraauricular dissection method is the preferred one to every case of PAS irrespective to age, previous surgery. It has no recurrence.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jcmc.v4i3.11935

Journal of Chitwan Medical College 2014; 4(3):21-24