OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that midfacial asymmetry specifically relevant to nasal tip deviation will be reflected in the measured soft-tissue attachments of the ala to the face. DESIGN Retrospective photographic analysis of 35 consecutive patients seeking functional or aesthetic nasal surgery regardless of cause. RESULTS Nasal axis had a significant correlation with the alar-facial a...

A two-month-old male infant presented with history of respiratory difficulty and got admitted provisional diagnosis pneumonia. On examination patient was having unilateral nasal hypoplasia cyanosis echocardiography showing truncus arteriosus. Detail revealed that mother had valve replacement she taking warfarin during pregnancy. After initial management referred to pediatric cardiac surgery pla...

INTRODUCTION Neonatal nasal airway obstruction induces various degrees of respiratory distress. The management of this disease, including surgical repair, will depend on the severity and location of the obstruction. We describe here a case of congenital nasal nostril stenosis that required surgical repair for stenting of both nares after coanal atresia repair. CASE REPORT A 2 days old female ...

IntroductionThe general indications for surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion (SARME) are skeletal maturity, (extreme) transverse maxillary hypoplasia, either unior bilateral, anterior crowding and buccal corridors, the so called black corridors, when smiling. Furthermore the indications for SARME include any case where orthodontic maxillary expansion has failed and resistance of the su...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the performance of nuchal fold thickness, nasal bone hypoplasia, reversed flow in the ductus venosus and tricuspid valve regurgitation in the prediction of fetal aneuploidies in the early second trimester. METHODS This was a prospective study of 870 fetuses at 14 + 0 to 17 + 6 weeks of gestation, performed from 2005 to 2007. In all cases we assessed classical structur...

Congenital arhinia is an extremely rare anomaly consisting of an absence of external nasal structures and nasal passages. Fewer than 30 cases have been reported. Patients with a familial absence of the nose have been reported, but the effects of genetic and maternal factors are unknown. Midface hypoplasia may accompany arhinia. Accompanying malformations are thought to be caused by an absent or...

Composite chondrocutaneous grafts were applied to 12 patients in various forms to repair the columellar deficit, to form the nasal tubercle and nostril sill in cleft lip nose patients. Cleft lip-nose deformity patients with alar cartilage hypoplasia, obtuse angulation of the medial and lateral crura and the resulting plica vestibularis, internal nasal valve problems associated with the weakness...

A 21-year-old primigravida had a pregnancy complicated by hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) beginning at 7-week gestation. Despite medical therapy, she lost 18% of her prepregnancy weight. Early ultrasound at 14 weeks demonstrated a flattened facial profile with nasal hypoplasia (Binder phenotype) consistent with vitamin K deficiency from HG. She had a percutaneous endoscopic gastrojejunostomy tube p...