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Neurotic excoriations complicating superficial parotidectomy--a case report
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Morriston Hospital, Swansea.
The British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
|February 1, 1993
Abstract:
A case is described in which division of the great auricular nerve during parotidectomy was complicated by perichondritis of the ear cartilage following self-inflicted injury. The desirability of preserving the posterior branch of the nerve whenever possible is stressed.