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ArticleThe Laryngoscope2025

Doc, Just Cut My Ears Off-A Case Report of Actinomyces in Bilateral Chronic Auricular Chondritis.

Niketna Vivek, Austin Hoke, Priyesh N Patel, Kenneth C Fletcher

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Article in The Laryngoscope, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Niketna VivekVanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0534-0608
Austin HokeDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Priyesh N PatelDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Kenneth C FletcherDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ear piercings can lead to infectious complications, commonly involving Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa . This is the first documented case of bilateral chronic auricular chondritis caused by Actinomyces odontolyticus following cartilage piercings. This case highlights a uniquely morbid case necessitating interdisciplinary care and aggressive surgical intervention for resolution.

Indexed as

ActinomycesActinomycosisBody PiercingCartilage DiseasesEar CartilageAnti-Bacterial AgentsChronic DiseaseHumansAnti-Bacterial Agentsaesthetic surgerybasic researchexternal earfacial plastics/reconstructive surgeryotology/neurotologyotoplastywound healing

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PMID40481755
PMCPMC12475556

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