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1: Facial Plast Surg Clin North Am. 2006 Nov;14(4):401-6, viii.Click here to read Links

Difficult revision case: Foreshortened nose and severe alar retraction, two prior rhinoplasty surgeries.

Toriumi DM.

Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Ear & Eye Infirmary, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1855 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. dtoriumi@uic.edu

This article reviews the case of a patient who had undergone two previous rhinoplasties and presented with a foreshortened nose and severe left alar retraction. She underwent excision of a skin lesion just above the left alar groove resulting in severe alar retraction.

PMID: 17088188 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]