Auricular complication of acupuncture

Journal/Book: New Zealand Medical Journal. 1987; 100(819): 141-142.

Abstract: Auricular chondritis occurred in a patient following a course of auricular acupuncture administered to help the patient give up smoking. Despite immediate treatment the condition pursued a long course resulting in considerable morbidity and some deformity of the ear. Twenty months after presentation the ear is not completely stable. Acupuncture should be considered a form of penetrating trauma which may induce perichondritis or chondritis in the auricle.

Keyword(s): Cartilage-Diseases-therapy

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