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.