Rare Cleft of the Nose.

Lee, Jung Ho; Song, Jin Kyung; Byeon, Jun Hee

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons 2005;32(5):667-670.
Published online September 1, 2005.

Rare Cleft of the Nose.

Jung Ho Lee, Jin Kyung Song, Jun Hee Byeon

Department of Plastic Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea. byeon@catholic.ac.kr

Abstract

Congenital facial cleft is a rare entity and appears along by the line of different processes of the facial development. An isolated cleft of the nose has been reported not often in the literature. We treated a patient with an isolated nasal cleft associated with undefined cranial anomaly. On 3D CT scan was seen a bony cleft traversing the pyriform aperture lateral to the anterior nasal spine. The nasal septum and frontal process of the maxilla were intact. There also was found bilateral bony defects in the frontal bone and bilateral frontal boss. The nasal cleft and frontal defect and boss were corrected by two stages: anterior two-third of the cranial vault with bilateral frontal boss was remodeled at the age of two years and the nasal cleft was repaired with a local rotation flap at age 3.

Keywords: Facial cleft; Nasal cleft