Supernumerary auricle on the lateral canthus.

A boy was born with an appendage on his right lateral canthus, with associated supernumerary auricles on the right cheek and a right ocular dermoid. We resected the appendage. Its core was composed of elastic cartilage, as is the external auricle. The lateral canthus overlaps facial cleft line No. 8 in Tessier's classification [Plast Reconstr Surg 4 (1976) 69] and forms the upper part of the first branchial arch. It appears that our patient's appendage was a supernumerary auricle, which had developed from the first branchial arch.