Preauricular lymph nodes, which are located in front of your ears, can sometimes become swollen and painful. Common causes include an ear or tooth infection. Treatment can depend on the underlying ...

Preauricular skin tags or ear pits (PSEPs) anterior to the external ear are generally considered minor anomalies. Partly as a result of mixed findings in studies, when isolated and not occurring in a ...

I've always had a tiny hole on the side of my head, but people often don't believe that I was born with it. When I was young I was known to pop an earring half way through it just to prove it only ...

The incidence of congenital preauricular fistula (CPF) is >1.1% in both Chinese and Caucasians, but it is even higher in Blacks. We mapped the locus for CPF to chromosome 8q11.1–q13.3 by linkage ...