Surgical and prosthetic treatment of congenital absence of the nose: a case report.
This paper presents a case of a 5-year old girl with a congenital absence of the nose. Congenital arrhinia is a very rare malformation of the midfacial bones. The difficulties of treating a child with this abnormality are discussed.
Department of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology, Medical Academy, Warsaw, Poland.
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Ranocha
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019931:Maxillofacial Prosthesis Implantation; D009666:Nose / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation; D012225:Rhinoplasty