Eric Klein v. Paul Nassif, M.D., et al.

What is on record

Klein alleged a 2014-11-17 rhinoplasty/septoplasty displaced his medial canthal tendon, leaving his right eye unable to close. Filed Los Angeles Superior Court, January 2016. Judge Holly J. Fujie's tentative ruling (2017-10-10) found "no triable issues" on breach and causation.

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In surgeon's terms

The procedure the record names

Pages on this site that explain the operation named above, written from the primary literature. They describe the procedure, not this person's surgery, which no surgeon of record has published.

• Septoplasty

  Septoplasty straightens the wall of cartilage and bone between the two sides of the nose so that air moves through both sides instead of one.

• Blocked breathing after rhinoplasty

  A nose that breathes worse after surgery than before it is the commonest functional complaint in revision practice, and it usually traces to one of three places: the internal…

• The caudal septum

  The caudal septum is the front edge of the septum, the part you can feel between your nostrils, and it holds the tip of the nose up.

Septum, valve and airway in the journal archive: 345 papers