title: [Rotated pedicle flap of the floor of nasal cavity to repair nasal septal perforation].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report a new procedure with rotated pedicle flap of the floor of nasal cavity to repair nasal septal perforation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Dissecting mucoperichondrium and mucoperiosteum around the perforation and taking downward to the floor of nasal cavity to make a posterior end pedicle flap. Then rotating the flap backward and upward to overlap the more large perforation and suturing it with the margin of the pocket of mucoperichondrium and mucoperiosteum of the perforation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Repair of the perforation in 11 cases were all successful with primary healing.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Autogenous rotated pedicle flap of the floor of nasal cavity for repairing nasal septal perforation has a lot of advantage. The graft is easy to take, no rejection, having good blood supply, highly survival rate and wide and long enough to be available to the implant for repairing the larger perforation according to its size and shape.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology,the Second Hospital of Dongshan District, Jieyang, 522031, China. luo309@126.com
authors.forename: Jiancheng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009296:Nasal Cavity / Q000601:surgery; D009297:Nasal Mucosa / Q000601:surgery; D009300:Nasal Septum / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009668:Nose Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D010521:Periosteum / Q000637:transplantation*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014945:Wound Healing; D055815:Young Adult