Objective: Secondary correction of cleft lip-nose presents a formidable challenge in cleft lip and palate surgery. Although numerous approaches have been proposed, suitable graft materials cannot be obtained from any part of body or the artificial biomaterials. We have established implant-type tissue-engineered cartilage using a porous scaffold comprised of poly L-lactic acid. The aim of this s...

Objective: To assess the degree of satisfaction of patients submitted to septoplasty based on the disease-specific quality of life questionnaire. Methodology: This prospective, descriptive study was conducted from April 2010 to April 2011 at Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Teaching Hospital Abbottabad Pakistan on 256 patients, who underwent septoplasty. Patients were assessed by the Nasal Obstruction Sy...

Dorsal nasal augmentation is commonly performed for various aesthetic deficiencies and/or reconstructive defects such as the saddle nose deformity. However, the optimal technique for volume augmentation has yet to be identified. The senior author (F.P.) has since developed a new modified technique using wrapped diced cartilage within an AlloDerm. This novel construct provides the plastic surgeo...

The correction of the twisted nose remains a challenge from both the functional and aesthetic points of view. It is well recognized that complete correction of this nasal deformity often necessitates not only reconfiguration of the external nasal framework, but also realignment of the septum. The occasional patient will, in addition, require concurrent middle turbinate resection and/or ethmoide...

The Relapsing Polychondritis (RP) is an uncommon systemic disease of unknown aetiology, probably due to an autoimmune process that destroys cartilaginous tissues because of a recurring inflammatory lesion. Deformities in the nasoseptal structure as the “nose in saddle” result in functional and aesthetic damage. The present study describes a case of a 53-yearold woman with the main diagnostic hy...

THE introduction of cranio-facial surgery has enabled a number of hideous facial deformities to be corrected but at the same time new problems have been created and not all the old ones solved. The problems created by cranio-facial surgery are such secondary deformities as enophthalmos and lagophthalmos, ptosis and canthal drift. The problems unsolved by cranio-facial surgery, although it has m...

Feline upper respiratory tract infection due to Aspergillus spp. is considered an emerging disease, with the number of reported cases continuing to rise. In this study, we report the first case of feline sinonasal aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus fischeri in Japan. The patient presented after 2 months of progressive facial deformity around the nose and nasal discharge. The isolate from this ...

Orbital hypertelorism is an increased distance between the bony orbits and can be caused by frontonasal malformations, craniofacial clefts, frontoethmoidal encephaloceles, glial tumors or dermoid cysts of the root of the nose, and various syndromic or chromosomal disorders. We report a series of 7 cases of hypertelorism that were treated in our hospital. The underlying causes in our series were...

Background and purpose - Hexapod ring fixators such as the Taylor Spatial Frame (TSF) have shown good outcomes. However, there have only been a few studies comparing the use of TSF with various etiologies of the deformity. We compared the use of TSF in congenital and acquired deformities in children. Patients and methods - We reviewed 213 lower extremity reconstructive procedures with the TSF i...

BACKGROUND Orbital involvement in Wegener's Granulomatosis (WG) is rare and has an overall good prognosis. CASE A 60-year-old hypertensive Indian female presented with vision loss and painful proptosis of left eye. Orbital incisional biopsy suggested necrotising small vessel inflammation. The saddle nose deformity and pedal nodulo- ulcerative lesions further consolidated the diagnosis of Wege...