Clinical study regarding nasal reconstruction methods
Journal Title: Romanian Journal of Rhinology - Year 2015, Vol 5, Issue 17
Abstract
BACKGROUND. In present days, there are described many reconstruction techniques for nasal post-traumatic and post-excision total defects, from simple suture to microsurgical free transfer in nasal reconstruction. It is important to follow the defect dimensions, its topography and also its etiology. The nasal aesthetic subunits principle is very important in aesthetic and functional reconstruction of a nasal defect. MATERIAL AND METHODS. The clinical study from this paper was realised on the patients admitted in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Emergency Clinical Hospital from Bucharest, between 2012 and 2013. Different determinant factors were studied for the success of nasal reconstruction. It was compared the difference between the reconstruction of the whole nasal subunit, based on aesthetic subunits principle, and the reconstruction of the defect. RESULTS. Although in our clinic the reconstruction of the defect is used in the majority of the cases and rarely the reconstruction based on aesthetic subunits principle, very good results were obtained, with a reduced number of complication and very few relapses. CONCLUSION. The success of the reconstruction depends on multiple factors regarding the type of the defect. The grafts can give very good results in all aesthetic subunits, while the nasogenian flap has good results for the reconstruction of the nasal wing and lobule defects. The frontal flap is the first option for reconstruction of the dorsum nasi with satisfactory results. This paper is supported by the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development (SOP HRD), financed from the European Social Fund and by the Romanian Government under the contract number POSDRU/159/1.5/137390
Authors and Affiliations
Sabina Ionita, Ioan Lascar
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