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Alexander operation

Alexander operation (modern German otorhinolaryngologist of G. Alexander):

  1. The recovery surgery performed at an underdeveloped auricle ("a cat's ear") at which of the hanging-down part of a sink excise a piece of a cartilage of a semi-lunar form further to sew it the upper end down;
  2. The recovery surgery performed at an atresia of outside acoustical pass at which allocate soft tissues of an overgrown part of outside acoustical pass with formation of rags from them for laying further for walls of the cavity formed in a mastoid.
 
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