War surgery of the faceA treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury by John BRoberts ..Prepared at the suggestion of the subsection on plastic and oral surgery connected with the office of the surgeon generalIllustrated with 256 figures . Fig. 216.— Gersunys method when part is lower down in helix. The form of the pinna, or external ear, made by the surgeonafter the suturing and healing of the cartilages and otherwounded tissues may need modification. It is well to be satisfiedafter plastic recreation of a pinna, which has suffered loss oftissue, with a crude representation of its pro
War surgery of the faceA treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury by John BRoberts ..Prepared at the suggestion of the subsection on plastic and oral surgery connected with the office of the surgeon generalIllustrated with 256 figures . Fig. 216.— Gersunys method when part is lower down in helix. The form of the pinna, or external ear, made by the surgeonafter the suturing and healing of the cartilages and otherwounded tissues may need modification. It is well to be satisfiedafter plastic recreation of a pinna, which has suffered loss oftissue, with a crude representation of its proper minor operations may greatly perfect its contour or add REPAIR OF DEFORMITIES OF EXTERNAL EAR. 379 rigidity to soft and flaccid structures. The result to be held inmind is that the reconstructed ear is to match so far as possiblethe uninjured one in shape, size, position on the side of the headand rigidity. It may be easier to reduce the unwounded ear so asto match that which has been made out of the remnants of theone damaged by gunshot trauma. Outstanding or flaring ears may be held back against thecranium by making more acute the angle between the auricle andthe skull by a simple operation. The angle between the
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