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Preoperative photograph of a left tragus defect several years after excision for basal cell carcinoma.
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Her preoperative photo is shown in Figure 1.
Intraoperative photograph showing conchal cartilage harvest through a postauricular incision.
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An area with a cartilaginous contour similar to that required was identified in the ipsilateral conchal bowl, and this segment of cartilage was harvested through a postauricular incision (Figure 2).
Intraoperative photograph showing the cartilage graft placement into the pretragal pocket.
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The graft was trimmed and placed in the pretragal pocket adjacent to the residual tragal cartilage (Figure 3).
Postoperative photograph of the patient after 9 months.
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The patient returned for follow-up and postoperative photos at 1 week and again at 1, 9 (Figure 4), and 13 months.