Erschienen in:
01.04.2011 | Discussion
The Use of Tissue Glue in Prominent Ear Correction Surgery
verfasst von:
Animesh J. K. Patel, Richard D. Price
Erschienen in:
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
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Ausgabe 2/2011
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Excerpt
Tissue glues based on cyanoacrylate and its derivatives have numerous applications in plastic surgery, mostly as a skin closure method and as a suture line dressing. The recent publication by Vetter et al. [
1] presented the use of tissue glue as an alternative to the head bandage following surgical correction of prominent ears. However, the technique they describe of gluing the pinna against the postauricular skin after otoplasty is not new, and the authors’ claim of it being a novel technique is misleading. …