Clinical study on cartilage formation in autogenous perichondrial transplantation in plastic surgery

Abstract

The author has used for perichondrial grafting in various clinical cases classified as follows: 1) Loss of the auricles. 2) Nasal deformity. 3) Eye lid reconstruction. 4) Temporomandibular joint ankylosis. In this clinical series, the chondrogenic activity apparently exists over a wide age spectrum, the amount and regularity of cartilage produced by any type of perichondria! graft is influenced by age and seems to be due to the vascularization to the perichondrium. © 1979, The Keio Journal of Medicine. All rights reserved.