Preauricular Cysts, Pits, and Fissures: Follow-up

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Further Reading

Keywords

preauricular tags, preauricular pits, preauricular fissures, epithelial mounds, pedunculated skin, preauricular sinus pit, sinus tracts, subcutaneous cysts, branchiootorenal syndrome, BOR syndrome, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, mandibulofacial dysostosis, oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia, chromosome arm 11q duplication syndrome, chromosome arm 4p deletion syndrome, chromosome arm 5p deletion syndrome

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Samuel T Ostrower, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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John P Bent lll, MD, Associate Professor, Director of Medical Student Education, Departments of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and Pediatrics, Albert Einstein School of Medicine; Director, Airway Clinic, Children's Hospital at Montefiore
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Mitchell B Austin, MD, Director, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Otolaryngology, Children's Medical Center, Medical College of Georgia
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