The nasal ala is a challenging area for surgical reconstruction, with thick sebaceous skin, the lack of an ample tissue reservoir, and an adjacent free margin. Numerous flaps have been reported for the repair of alae defects. A 71-year-old woman with simultaneous basal cell carcinomas involving both nasal alae was treated by Mohs micrographic surgery. The surgical defects measured 1.5×1.5 cm on...

Due to the prominent location of the nose, the most common facial traumas are nasal injuries. Although nasal traumas usually require staged intervention at a later period of time, in selected cases, primary reconstruction can be effective. A 20-year-old man who was referred from the emergency department with nasal trauma is presented. He reported a fall after feeling unsteady, which caused a di...

Introduction Anatomical nasal tissues include bone, cartilage, muscles, subcutaneous layer, and skin. All these elements are carefully organized to allow proper physiology and adequate aesthetics. These variables have been extensively studied and published, principally related to the corrections of development or post-traumatic abnormalities. Nasal surgical corrections have focused on re-establ...

Sir, Primary sinonasal mucosal melanomas are uncommon, aggressive tumours. Similar to other malignancies, nasal melanomas frequently metastasize to the lymph nodes, lungs, liver and bone. However, skin metastases are very rare (1). We report here a patient with amelanotic melanoma originating from the sinonasal mucosa who rapidly developed multiple skin metastases and the diagnosis was confirme...

METHODS: 60 patients who had non-melanocytic skin cancer on the only nasal tip were included in this study. There was no previous history of nasal surgery, allergic rhinitis, concha hypertrophy and other breathing problems in any patients. Six patients were treated with forehead flap, ten patients nasolabial island flap, twenty patients bilobe flap that based on inferior, 24 patients bilobe fla...

METHODS: 60 patients who had non-melanocytic skin cancer on the only nasal tip were included in this study. There was no previous history of nasal surgery, allergic rhinitis, concha hypertrophy and other breathing problems in any patients. Six patients were treated with forehead flap, ten patients nasolabial island flap, twenty patients bilobe flap that based on inferior, 24 patients bilobe fla...

Complex surgical nasal defects are often technically difficult. We report the case of a 71-year old male diagnosed with a malignant melanoma (animal type; Breslow 1.5; Clark IV) on the right nasal ala. Radial excision with margins of approximately 1.5 cm was performed, creating a complex full-thickness surgical defect involving the free wall and margin of the right nasal ala, the right soft tri...

Rhinosporidiosis is a chronic granulomatous infective disease commonly involving the nose and occasionally involving the skin and subcutaneous tissues. We hereby report a case of nasal and disseminated rhinosporidiosis who was operated thrice and had a recurrence of disease in the nasal cavity and the nasopharynx. Biopsy from the lesions in nasal cavity proved the recurrence of disease and he w...

Dry skin (xerosis) is a common problem, and ranges from mild dryness through to severe dryness and skin breakdown. The use of emollients continues to be the main therapeutic approach to this problem. However, patients and healthcare professionals do not always appreciate the importance of emollient therapy, and are faced with an overwhelming choice of products. This article aims to review skin ...