Early Excision of Necrotic Cartilage in Aural Perichondritis |
HD Jeon, MD, CW Park, MD, KG Chu, MD, and KS Ahn, MD |
Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea |
괴사연골의 조기 절제술에 의한 이개연골막염의 치료 |
전하동 · 박철원 · 추광철 · 안경성 |
한양대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실 |
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ABSTRACT |
Since newly developed antibiotics for gram negative organism, aural perichondritis is well respond to prompt treatment without deformity of an auricle. But necrosis of cartilage developed occasionally and gross deformity of auricle has resulted in spite of variable methods of treatment. Authors experienced 5 cases of perichondritis combined necrosis of cartilage and intensive surgical procedure which was early excision of skin, perichondrium and cartilage of infected region and secondary skin graft performed. The results were excellent with short duration of treatment and minimized external deformity. So we reported with review of literature. |
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