OBJECTIVE   The purpose of this project was to develop objective computer-based methods to measure nasal asymmetry and abnormality in children undergoing treatment of unilateral cleft lip (UCL) and to determine the correlation of these measures to clinical expectations. PARTICIPANTS   Thirty infants with UCL undergoing cleft lip repair; 27 children with UCL aged 8 to 10 years who had previous...

OBJECTIVE To measure the efficacy of a specific midvault reconstruction technique (the autospreader flap) in dorsal reductive rhinoplasty with a validated quality-of-life instrument. DESIGN A prospective observational outcomes study of patients desiring reduction of the nasal dorsum who either (1) had no breathing obstruction, who underwent purely aesthetic rhinoplasty, or (2) had concomitant...

BACKGROUND Skin cancers requiring nasal resection may be surgically reconstructed and/or prosthetically reconstructed. Singular surgical reconstruction may be ideal for smaller defects in which the nasal bone and cartilaginous portions of the nose are maintained, but surgical reconstruction falls short of providing acceptable aesthetic results for more extensive nasal defects. Prosthetic rehabi...

Midfacial degloving is a proven method for easily accessing the midface, the nasal pyramid, the maxillary and ethmoidal sinuses, the orbits, as well as the anterior skull base. Indications for this method of access mainly include tumour resections in the area of the midface, the septum, the maxillary sinus, the paranasal to the sphenoidal sinus as well as the clivus. In addition, this method of...

inder syndrome is a rare congenital malformation (maxllonasal dysplasia), which was first described in 1939 by oyes, whereas it was Binder who defined it as a synrome in 1962.1,2 Clinically, there is enlarged nasal angle arhinoid face), abnormal position of the nasal bones, ypoplastic maxillary, hypoplasia/reduction of the nasal pine, absence/hypoplasia of the frontal nasal sinus (not bligatory...

OBJECTIVE To determine the factors contributing to failure of interpolation flaps in nasal reconstruction. DESIGN Retrospective medical chart review. SETTING Tertiary care academic center. PATIENTS A total of 107 patients with nasal defects needing reconstruction, performed at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock. INTERVENTION Patients underwent nasal reconstruct...

Objective This study aimed to investigate reconstruction methods according to nasal subunits in patients who were surgically treated with diagnosis of non-melanoma skin cancer of the nose. Methods All patients were retrospectively investigated. This study was conducted between April 2004 and December 2010; 180 patients who were surgically treated with diagnoses of skin basal cell carcinoma, s...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this article, the participant should be able to: 1. Understand the epidemiology of skin cancer in a patient with preexisting skin cancer. 2. Understand the indications for the use of a nasolabial flap and nonanatomic alar strut graft. 3. Describe the blood supply to the nasolabial flap. The goals of reconstructing deformities of the face acquired secondary to ...