Journal archive · Septum, valve and airway · Adolescent and aging nose · 2024
"Should Pediatric Septal Surgery and Septorhinoplasty Be Performed for Nasal Obstruction?"-A Systematic Review of the Literature
Howard T, Williams I, Navaratnam A, Haloob N, Stoenchev K, Saleh H.
In the archive as a landmark paper: the core sweep runs 2011–2026, and this one is here because the history of rhinoplasty rests on it · cited on pediatric septoplasty.
From the abstract
“Corrective septal surgery for children with nasal obstruction has historically been avoided due to concern about the impact on the growing nose, with disruption of midfacial growth. However, there is a paucity of data evaluating complication and revision rates post-nasal septal surgery in the pediatric population. In…”
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What the rhinoplasty literature says on this paper's topics, cited line by line to PubMed.
Septum, valve and airway
Every rhinoplasty is a breathing operation whether it intends to be or not: the septum holds the nose up as well as dividing it, and the narrowest part of the whole airway is the internal valve the surgeon is standing over.
Adolescent and aging nose
The same operation is a different problem at twelve and at seventy: in a child the fear is stunting a nose that has not finished growing, and in an older patient the nose has kept changing, dropping at the tip, thinning at the skin and weakening at the cartilage, until it blocks the airway.
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