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KMID : 0358819850120040475
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Journal of Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
1985 Volume.12 No. 4 p.475 ~ p.485
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ANTHROPOMETRY OF NORMAL KOREAN EARS
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Song Joong-Won
Kang Jin-Sung
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Abstract
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The role of ears on the face and head has major functional and cosmetic aspects. Because of its delicacy and complexity, to describe the ear adequately is very difficult but accurate surface measurements of normal Korean ears are essential for surgeons, faced with the necessity of partial or complete construction of anomalous Korean ears. For this reason anthropometry of normal Korean ears is needed.
The authors measured the size of the auricle, the location and level of the auricle and the inclination and protrusion of the ear. The authors also studied the type of the lobule and the posterior view of the helix. The study comprised 1, 012 healthy Koreans from birth to adult, including 507 males and 505 females.
Statistical analysis of these results offers chronological growth development of the size of the ears and valuable information about the geography and--the shape of healthy Korean ears.
The results are as follows;
A: Size of ears
1. Mean values and standard errors in adults,
a: Length of ears in males 64.5±4.9mm and females 59.1±2.8mm.
b: Width of ears in male 33.4+1.6mm and females 32.7+2. lmm.
Auricular index in males 52, females 55.
B: Geography of ears (Mean vealues for adults) 1. Ear location
a Index in males 50 and females 48.
2. Ear level
a. Index: In males 58 and females 60.
b. Upper edge of the ears: 80%, at the lateral point of the eyebrow.
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