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Otoplasty

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The normal anatomy of the ear is certainly one of the aesthetic rules in force in the western culture. The malformations of the external ear or of other auricular structures may be responsible for psychological traumata in the individuals who are affected by them.

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  1. FEBOPRAS, Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Microchirurgiche e Mediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

    Corrado Rubino MD

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Microchirurgiche e Mediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

    Francesco Farace MD

  3. U.O.C. di Chirurgia Plastica, Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Microchirurgiche e Mediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

    Pietro Mulas MD

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  1. Dept. of Plastic Surgery, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Nicolò Scuderi

  2. University of California- San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Bryant A. Toth

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Rubino, C., Farace, F., Mulas, P. (2016). Otoplasty. In: Scuderi, N., Toth, B. (eds) International Textbook of Aesthetic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46599-8_58

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