In Elastic Cartilage elastic fibers are present and embedded in the matrix. These fibers branch and run in all directions and anastomose to form a dense network.
In the peripheral layers, the fibres are thin and the network wide meshed.
In the deeper portions, they are thicker and more closely packed.
Elastic cartilage is present in the external ear, the eustachian tube, the epiglottis and in a part of aretynoid cartilages.
