Petrified Ear – A Case Report and Review of the Literature
| Autor: | Emma Weiss, Catherine A Degesys, Christopher M Stroud |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty Petrified ear business.industry Ossification Cartilage Dermatology General Medicine Anatomy medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure petrified ear petrified auricle ectopic ossification otorhinolaryngologic diseases Medicine sense organs medicine.symptom business Calcification |
| Zdroj: | Weiss, Emma; Degesys, Catherine A; & Stroud, Christopher M. (2017). Petrified Ear – A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Dermatology Online Journal, 23(2). Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/207579b9 |
| Popis: | Petrified ear is the transformation of normal, flexibleauricular cartilage into rigid, immobile auricularcartilage due to abnormal calcification or ossification.Etiologies of petrified ear include tissue injury,systemic endocrine diseases, congenital disorders,or petrified ear of unknown origin. We present a caseof a 69-year-old male with a one-month history ofnon-painful rigidity of the right ear that was found tohave petrified ear of unknown etiology confirmed byradiography. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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