Unilateral aural atresia: a case report

Natalia V Fourla; Dimosthenis T Chrysikos; Konstantinos T Makrypidis; Zacharias A Memtsas; Vasileios D Protogerou; Maria G Karamanidi; Theodore T Troupis

doi:10.1093/jscr/rjac037

Unilateral aural atresia: a case report

J Surg Case Rep. 2022 Feb 11;2022(2):rjac037. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjac037. eCollection 2022 Feb.

Authors

Natalia V Fourla¹, Dimosthenis T Chrysikos¹, Konstantinos T Makrypidis², Zacharias A Memtsas², Vasileios D Protogerou¹, Maria G Karamanidi¹, Theodore T Troupis¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anatomy, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 75 Mikras Asias str., 11527 Goudi, Greece.
² Department of ENT, Euroclinic Athens, 7-9 Athanasiadou str., D. Soutsou, 11521, Athens, Greece.

Abstract

Congenital aural atresia refers to abnormal embryological development of the external auditory canal. The treatment of this anatomical malformation is only surgical repair. This article reports a case of unilateral congenital aural atresia, the surgical procedure performed and the post-operative findings.

Publication types

Case Reports