(CTO) – Doctors at Children's Hospital of Can Tho City have successfully operated sutures for a complicated case of a broken earlobe after a traffic accident.
Picture of a girl's right ear injury before and after surgery. Photo provided by BV.
Girl DTTNT (12 years old, from Hau Giang province), was hospitalized on June 2, 6 in a state of near severed right ear with complicated contusion. The wound bleeds a lot, the margin is jagged, the cartilage of the ear is lost and exposed, there is a lot of sand and soil, it is likely to cause infection.
Mr. Huy Thanh, Deputy Director of Children's Hospital of Can Tho City, said that right after receiving the patient, the team on duty examined, assessed and temporarily stopped the bleeding of the wound. The girl was assigned surgery to reconstruct the right ear flap to ensure the aesthetics and function of catching sound waves of the auricle.
The surgical team must thoroughly clean the dirt stuck to the wound along with cutting the crushed cartilage and crumbling tissues to regenerate and reconstruct the earlobes for the pediatric patient. Doctors said that otolaryngology is a complicated and difficult surgery to perform as well as a great challenge for otolaryngologists. Because the auricle has a very special histological structure, the skin is very thin covering the cartilaginous frame, in the middle there is a convex and curved shape. Deformed ear lobes after an accident will affect the reception of sound and interfere with the communication process.
Currently, the girl is being continued to be monitored, the condition of the earache is pink, the edge has been healed after the thread is removed, the ear structure is almost back to the original.
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