Anthropometric growth study of auricle of healthy preterm and term newborns

Application of external ear morphometry in age prediction: a pilot study

“…1 Studies on the age-related variations in ear linear dimensions during growth, development and ageing was reported in some ethnic group especial Caucasian; Dutch, 2 German, 3 Italian, [4][5][6] European, 7 North American, 1,8 Turkish. [9][10][11] Other population include Indian, [12][13][14] Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jew, 15 Japanese, 16 Nigeria. 17 Anomalies of the ear including missing external ear, prominent ears, and microtia may be as a result of various causes such as trauma, surgical resection, tumours, or congenital deformities.…”

Age- and sex-related changes in the normal human ear

“…Postnatal abnormalities in ear dimensions and position are common findings in several alterations of the human chromosomes and karyotype, and in developmental defects of the first and second branchial archs [3,10,11,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. For instance, in persons with Down's syndrome ear length and width are reduced, the earlobe is often more protruding from head surface, and there is an increased right-left asymmetry [10,11,[13][14][15][16]19,22]. In contrast, wide ears can be found in Apert and Crouzon syndromes [1,10,19].…”

“…For instance, in persons with Down's syndrome ear length and width are reduced, the earlobe is often more protruding from head surface, and there is an increased right-left asymmetry [10,11,[13][14][15][16]19,22]. In contrast, wide ears can be found in Apert and Crouzon syndromes [1,10,19]. Low-set ears can be found in persons with Noonan syndrome [17,20], and with trisomy 13 and 18 [10]; prominent ears can be found in Turner syndrome [22].…”

“…Overall, quantitative data on the age-related changes in ear dimensions during growth, development and aging have been recently reported for Dutch Caucasian [2], German Caucasian [9], Italian Caucasian [6,7,11], North American Caucasian [5,28], Turkish Caucasian [1,19,26,27,29], Indian [10,12,30], Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jew [4], Japanese [8], healthy persons of both sexes.…”

Does auricular lateralization occur after retroauricular approach?

“…Ancak kulak gelişimini çok erken yaşlarda tamamlandığından bu yaş grubu ile erişkin yaş grubu arasında benzer sonuç-lar beklenmektedir. [18] French ve ark. [6] ise retrospektif olarak mastoidektomi uyguladıkları hastaları incelemişler ve aurikulanın cerrahi sonrası inferiora doğru yer değiştirdiğini tespit etmişlerdir.…”