Preauricular pit is when you have a small hole just in front of your ear. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatment options for this condition today. Skip to main content .

The preauricular lymph nodes sit just in front of the ears. Some medical problems, such as infections, can cause them to swell. Learn more here.

Business Insider reports that "between .1% and .9% of the European and U.S. population are born with preauricular sinus." Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Don’t miss our daily roundup.

Just 1% of people in the UK have preauricular sinuses aka a tiny and hard-to-see hole in their ear. While in some parts of the world, the frequency of this is far higher. In fact, in some ...

1 in 100 people in Britain are born with a preauricular sinus (Picture: Smooth O/Wikimedia) If you were in a room with around 100 people in Britain it’s likely one of you will have tiny little ...

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 ...