✦ The floor
Discussion
Signed responses from readers of the wire.
✦ Clinical Takeaway ✦
No actionable change for audiologists; this is a surgical reconstructive technique report relevant to dermatologic or plastic surgeons, not to hearing care professionals.
✦ Why It Matters ✦
Auricular reconstruction techniques are relevant to ENT and plastic surgery but have limited bearing on audiological practice beyond awareness of post-surgical ear anatomy changes that could affect hearing aid fitting.
✦ Key Points ✦
- 01Describes reconstruction of a large anterior auricular defect following Mohs surgery for skin cancer.
- 02The technique aims to preserve auricular projection (the natural outward shape of the ear).
- 03No abstract was available; details of technique, sample, and outcomes are unknown.
- 04Relevant primarily to dermatologic, plastic, and ENT surgeons rather than audiologists.
- 05Audiologists should be aware that post-Mohs auricular changes can affect hearing aid fitting and earmold design.
✦ Claims & Evidence ✦
ClaimEvidenceSupport
A specific reconstruction technique can preserve auricular projection following large anterior auricular defect repair after Mohs surgery.
studyunclear✦ Research metadata ✦
- PMID
- 42908129
- DOI
- 10.1111/ijd.70749.
- Journal
- International Journal of Dermatology
- Publication type
- case_report
- Evidence level
- 4
- Population
- Patient(s) with large anterior auricular defect following Mohs surgery
- Intervention
- Surgical reconstruction of anterior auricular defect with preservation of auricular projection
Primary outcomes
Preservation of auricular projection; Defect closure outcome