Adolescent Female With Right Ear Redness

A 16-year-old female adolescent with no medical history presented to the emergency department with 2 days of right ear redness that began after a high-chondral ear piercing. Physical examination revealed tenderness and erythema over the pinna of the right ear, without appreciable fluctuance or abscess formation. Vital signs revealed no abnormalities. The ear piercing was expeditiously removed and a swab of the area was sent for wound culture (Figure).

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