MANAGEMENT OF INTRAOPERATIVE NASAL SEPTAL TEARS AND PERFORATIONS

Authors
GUYURON B MICHELOW BJ
Citation
B. Guyuron et Bj. Michelow, MANAGEMENT OF INTRAOPERATIVE NASAL SEPTAL TEARS AND PERFORATIONS, Aesthetic plastic surgery, 18(1), 1994, pp. 61-63
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
Aesthetic plastic surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
0364216X
Volume
18
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
61 - 63
Database
ISI
SICI code
0364-216X(1994)18:1<61:MOINST>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
An organized technique for managing intraoperative septal tears was de veloped based on 98 patients who endured septal tears. Small nonopposi ng perforations are allowed to heal spontaneously. Opposing tears, wit h sizes varying from less than 1 cm to greater than 2 cm, are repaired first on one side of the mucoperichondrium with the reinsertion of a straight piece of septal cartilage; the other side of the mucoperichon drium is then repaired.