Repairing surgical defects of the nasal tip is challenging, mainly because of the lack of freely mobile skin available peripherally. The Peng flap is a one-stage cutaneous flap that circumvents this difficulty by recruiting skin from the nasal dorsum and sidewall regions. The design produces a tridimensional shape perfectly adapted to the configuration of the nasal tip and allows for an inconsp...

OBJECTIVES Manicurists are exposed to various chemicals in nail and skin care products and may develop ocular, nasal, respiratory or skin adverse reactions to them. To investigate the occurrence of ocular, nasal, respiratory and skin problems among manicurists and to identify their causal factors, particularly allergic etiology and occupational origin. MATERIAL AND METHODS Manicurists employe...

Figure 1. Classic appearance of rhino-phyma with a bulbous, cosmetic nasal deformity causing distortion of the aesthetic subunits of the lower nose. Alar thickening can eventually lead to obstruction of the external nasal valves. Figure 2. Transition of the affected thicker sebaceous skin of the lower nose and the relatively unaffected upper nasal skin.

INTRODUCTION Leprosy, whose etiologic agent is M. leprae, has its clinical manifestations correlated with distinct immunologic forms. The mechanism of infectivity and dissemination of the disease are not completely known, although the nasal mucosa is supposed to have an important role in pathogenesis. OBJECTIVE To correlate the clinical and bacteriological parameters with that of nasal biopsy...

BACKGROUND The main symptoms of allergic rhinitis (AR) are sneezing, rhinorrhea and nasal obstruction. It was reported that the nasal skin temperature after intranasal administration of histamine or grass pollen rose. In patients with AR, the levels of nerve growth factor (NGF) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) have increased in nasal fluids and mucosa. OBJECTIVE The present study...

Objective: Nasal tip refinement is an important objective in aesthetic rhinoplasty and one of the surgical options for soft tissue management in very thick bulbous skin and subcutaneous noses is tip defatting. The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and complications of tip defatting in thick skin and bulbous noses.     Methods: Among 527 patients that underwent rhinoplasty in Modar...

Untreated heavy nasal carriers of staphylococci have been reported to have staphylococci on their skin more frequently and to disseminate staphylococci in the air in larger numbers than either noncarriers or carriers of smaller numbers of these bacteria (1). If the nose is the main source of skin and aerial staphylococci, suppression of nasal staphylococci should be followed by a reduction in b...

A 55-year-old woman was referred to our outpatient clinic because of bilateral papular lesions on her nose from 2 years ego. In clinical examination, we found three symmetrical dome-shaped, skin-colored, asymptomatic papules on both nasal alas. The lesions made the patient's nose to seem larger with eroded edges (figures 1, 2). Examination of nasal mucosa was normal. General physical examinatio...

BACKGROUND Skin cancers requiring nasal resection may be surgically reconstructed and/or prosthetically reconstructed. Singular surgical reconstruction may be ideal for smaller defects in which the nasal bone and cartilaginous portions of the nose are maintained, but surgical reconstruction falls short of providing acceptable aesthetic results for more extensive nasal defects. Prosthetic rehabi...