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JAMES L. PARKIN, MD, MS
Salt Lake City

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1987;113(5):473.

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Jeffrey P. Harris, MD, and Robert Cuevo, MD, of the University of California at San Diego, speaking in Los Angeles in January, reported that as more cochlear implants are performed, patients will be implanted who have had previous postauricular incisions. They emphasized that it is important in designing the skin flap for the cochlear implant to give careful consideration to potential blood supply and drainage. In patients who have previously undergone tympanomastoid surgery with postauricular incisions, it was advised that an inferiorly based postauricular flap be designed to assure adequate postsurgical flap viability. The stimulus for this paper, which was presented at the Western Section Meeting of the Triological Society, resulted from Harris and Cuevo's experience with one patient who experienced ischemia of an anteriorly based postauricular flap.—JAMES L. PARKIN, MD, MS, Salt Lake City . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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