%0 Journal Article
%T Image Diagnosis: Boxers Ear
%A Satvinder Singh Bakshi
%J Archive of "The Permanente Journal".
%D 2019
%R 10.7812/TPP/18-132
%X A 28-year-old man presented with right ear pain associated with swelling and deformity for 9 hours following an assault. On examination, the right pinna was swollen and red (Figure 1). The swelling was tender, warm, and soft on palpation. A diagnosis of pinna hematoma was made, and the hematoma was drained immediately. Postdrainage, the patient was started on parenteral antibiotics, and compression bandages were applied for a week (Figure 2). He recovered with minimal deformity of the pinna and was asymptomatic at 4-month follow-up
%K boxers ear
%K cauliflower ear
%K pinna hematoma
%K wrestlers ear
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6550318/