title: Complete nasal agenesis with bilateral microphthalmia and unilateral duplication of the thumb.
abstract: Complete nasal aplasia is an extremely rare clinical entity and most infants are stillborn when this is associated with holoprosencephaly. A viable 3-year-old infant born with frontonasal arrest without holoprosencephaly is presented. The child's main complaint was lack of a nasal airway, which made eating extremely difficult. A method for craniofacial reconstruction of the nasopharynx is presented.
authors.affiliation: Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, N.Y., USA.
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: LaTrenta
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hoffman
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Neidich
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000601:surgery*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008850:Microphthalmos / Q000601:surgery*; D009305:Nasopharynx / Q000601:surgery*; D009666:Nose / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D013933:Thumb / Q000002:abnormalities*