Pathology and treatment of nasoschizis.
A craniofacial malformation is caused by a developmental arrest that results in focal fetal dysplasia. The severity, location, and number of these dysplasias make a wide spectrum of abnormalities possible. In this spectrum nasal dysplasia and, more particularly, the malformations characterized by a cleft in the lateral part of the nose play a prominent role, but in past years they have received only scant attention. In Tessier's classification this nasoschizis is the Number 1 cleft. We present here our observation in 2 patients with nasoschizis and the procedure used to correct it. Both patients were operated on at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel.
D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000601:surgery; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000601:surgery; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009666:Nose / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods*