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1Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Republic of Korea.
The British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
|September 4, 2016
Abstract:
I encountered an ovoid mass that blocked the opening of a patient's right ear, and initially thought that it was an accessory tragus. Unusually, the cyst had developed on the tragus of the ear and was pedunculated with a linear stalk from the tragal cartilage. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first report of a dermoid cyst that involved the tragal cartilage, and was completely excised.

