BACKGROUND About 45% of all pregnant women suffer low back pain and/or pelvic girdle pain (LBPGP). This study seeks to evaluate the effect of auricular acupuncture on LBPGP compared with placebo auricular acupuncture and with standard obstetric care in the field of primary health care. METHODS AND DESIGN This study will be a four-parallel-arm, multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled trial...

Introduction: Keloids result from an abnormal fibrous wound healing process. Effective treatment of keloids still present a significant challenge. Various modalities of therapy may be applied, but none of them has been proved entirely successful. Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of cryosurgery as a preventive approach after surgical excision of the recurrent auricular keloids. Material and me...

OBJECTIVE To compare the auricular projection results across 3 different techniques of sulcus construction in microtia repair (using a temporoparietal fascial flap, a retroauricular fascial flap from the mastoid region, or a superficial muscular aponeurotic system advancement flap). METHODS All the patients had been photographed at least 3 months after the second stage (construction of the re...

The incidence of auricular deformities is believed to be ∼11.5 per 10,000 births, excluding children with microtia. Although not life-threatening, auricular deformities can cause undue distress for patients and their families. Although surgical procedures have traditionally been used to reconstruct congenital auricular deformities, ear molding has been gaining acceptance as an efficacious, noni...

treatment methods have been proposed, however recurrence and cosmetic problems are still noted in some cases. The aim of this article was to discuss our experience of surgical treatment of intractable auricular pseudocysts. Methods: Fourteen patients with auricular pseudocysts who were unresponsive to simple aspiration followed by intralesional steroid injections or who declined conservative tr...

INTRODUCTION An auricular hematoma is a commonly encountered clinical condition. A number of treatment options for auricular hematomas have been suggested, but a continuing controversy exists regarding the most effective therapy. Auricular hematomas are a consequence of the relatively unique histological features of auricle damage and the unusual pathophysiology of the lesion. In experimental s...

OBJECTIVE Sensory disturbance due to excision of the great auricular nerve in patients who have undergone parotidectomy sometimes causes discomfort to the patients. In order to reduce the postoperative discomfort of the pinna, we tried to preserve the posterior branch of the great auricular nerve. METHODS Forty patients with parotid tumor were included in this study. Twenty-one of these patie...

Leiomyosarcoma arising in the head and neck region is a rare entity. Auricular involvement by the disease is further rarer with few cases reported in the literature. Usually auricular leiomyosarcoma is a disease of middle-old age. We report a case of leiomyosarcoma of the postauricular region in a young adolescent female. Surgery along with adjuvant radiotherapy was used for complete cure. Pati...