Cut-seam technique

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In traditional surgery of the protruding ears, the cut-suture technique means a technique in which, after a long skin incision on the back or front of the ear, the exposed ear cartilage is severed in several places and then the antihelix is ​​reshaped with sutures. A typical example of this method is the Converse otoplasty operation .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JM Converse, A. Nigro, FA Wilson, N. Johnson: A technique for surgical correction of lop ears . In: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (1946) . tape 15 , no. 5 , May 1955, p. 411-418 , PMID 14384519 .