[Surgical treatment of recurrent pseudocyst of auricle].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the surgical techniques and skills for recurrent pseudocyst of auricle.

METHODS: Retrospective analysis of 20 cases from January 2006 to May 2014 in our department, who were treated by the operations with skills as follows, resection the anterior wall of pseudocyst cartilage and perichondrium, grooves cutting the roughing the posterior cartilages wall, and local compression.

RESULTS: All 20 patients were followed up for 8 to 42 months and all were cured. No recurrence, infections and malformation were happened.

CONCLUSION: Resection the anterior cartilage wall perichondrium of the pseudocyst, grooves cutting and roughing of posterior cartilages of the peudocyst, and in combined with local compression are effective treatment for recurrent cases.