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1. You are attaching a cartilage framework. Where should it go? What height?
2. Discuss the techniques of otoplasty by Mustarde and Stenstrom. What is the conchal-mastoid technique of Furnas?
3. A patient comes in with a clean amputation of the upper third of his ear and brings the piece with him. What procedures can you do using the amputated piece to acutely reconstruct his ear?
4. Review the options for ear reconstruction. (PRS 1992; 90:355)
5. (a) Review the vascular anatomy of the ear. (b) Is replantation succesful? (c) Where would you look for vessels? (PRS 1992; 90:38)
6. What are the problems with a silastic frame work? Tell us about Med pore and osseointegrated implants. (PRS 1993; 91:811)
7. What middle ear surgery is necessary in microtia? When should it be done? Can these patients hear well?
8. Describe the ear flap of Antia and Buch, the Davis conchal flap, and the Converse tunnel procedure. (PRS 1967; 39:472)
9. Your patient has Stahl's ear. What is it and how will you fix it?
10. Does non-surgical reshaping of congenital ear deformities in the neonatal period work? (Read Clinics in Plastic Surgery 1990; 17:383-95)
11. How is a constricted ear corrected? Review Tanzer's classification of the constricted ear.
12. What is a cryptotic ear? How can this be corrected?
13. How do you treat suppurative chondritis? (PRS 1988;82:267)
14. How do you treat a hematoma of the ear? What are the long-term complications of these hematomas?
15. How should you repair a split earlobe?
16. A patient has a 2-cm basal cell cancer of the concha. What do you do?