PURPOSE: To investigate the surgical results of an ear cartilage graft and supplemental procedures for correcting lower lid retraction combined with entropion in anophthalmic patients. METHODS ...

Currently, several surgeons build a replacement ear using cartilage removed from a child’s ribs, an operation that can be painful and scarring. The resulting graft can be crafted to resemble the ...

Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) with a polymer-based graft could have potential as a treatment for focal degenerative cartilage defects, such as those observed in osteoarthritis.

1b). Consistent with the idea that sequence evolution by late-acting enhancers supports diversification of head outgrowths, ear cartilage in mice, bats and many other mammals contains specialized ...