INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Cleft lip and palate are usually associated with craniofacial defects and nose deformities that alter the facial aesthetic configuration. After initial surgical treatment, further surgery (both nasal and maxillary) is often required to reduce the physical impact in these patients. These techniques should be delayed until the development of the facial skeleton is comp...

During recent years a number of patients have been described in whom degeneration of cartilage in the ears, nose, respiratory tract, and thoracic cage has been associated with polyarthritis and sometimes also with iritis or episcleritis. The first recorded case appears to be that of Jaksch-Wartenhorst (1923) in Prague: a man aged 32 years became ill with multiple arthritis and fever and this wa...

Aim. To present a clinical case of late diagnosis granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), which for long time was interpreted as pulmonary form tuberculosis the passage anti-tuberculosis therapy without effect, led to severe structural changes and resection lungs deformation bones facial skeleton. Materials methods. Patient S., 31 y. o., hospitalized in rheumatology department complaints bloody...

The use of a new autologous material, the inferior turbinate bone, for nasal augmentation is presented together with surgical treatment of a 24-year-old male patient with moderately severe saddle nose deformity. In the postoperative period, no complications were observed. Photographs and three-dimensional computed tomography views obtained 13 months after the operation showed that the reconstru...

The pat ient was a female neonate bor n prematurely on 36 weeks of gestation by normal vaginal delivery. During pregnancy, mother had no history of fever, drug use or x-ray exposure. The mother was gravida 2 and had no history of abortion. Her first baby was well. On physical examination, the skin was markedly thickened, hard and hyperkeratotic with deep crevices running transversely and vertic...

The pathology of "nasal tip complex" remains as a problem to be solved in unilateral cleft lip nose deformity wherein open rhinoplasty and cartilage grafts are used frequently. For this reason, the research for the treatment of cleft-side tip projection lost and ala depression still continues. Our technique is to put the cartilage graft at posterior dome area after the release of cleft-side ala...

Figure ]. A: After the deflected dorsal segment of the septum is separated vertically from the remainder of the septum, a 3.0-mm Skeeter drill is used to create two small holes in the nasal bone on the side opposite the direction of the deflection. B: The ends of the separated septum are sutured into position with a horizontal mattress suture that is passed through the holes in the nasal bones....