LONG-TERM RESULTS OF NEONATES WITH NASAL DEVIATION - A PROSPECTIVE-STUDY OVER 12 YEARS

In the literature of the past 100 years only a few cases with document ed long-term healing of intrauterinely acquired nasal deviation could be found. Therefore we prospectively investigated 3425 children who we re born between 1980 and 1981 in the Obstetric Department of the Unive rsity Hospital of Ulm. In this group 29 neonates (0.86%) showed a devi ation of the bony and cartilaginous nose related to intrauterine injur y. After a period of 11-12 years we could reexamine 14 children by oto rhinolaryngological examination, photographic documentation of the fac e and acoustic rhinometry. After 11-12 years nine children presented a straight nose and five children (36%) showed a deviation of the nasal pyramid to the same side as found at birth-markedly in two girls and slightly in three girls. Unexpectedly high was the rate of malocclusio ns, namely in 13 out of 14 children.