title: [Management of the nasal base by resecting strips of skin from the columnella].
abstract: The handling of the nasal base includes, changes of inferior lateral cartilages and the skin of the nasal base, which vary according to the gendre and race of the patient.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To propose a technique for the handling of wide nasal base in patients with a wide columnella, where reducing its volume allows carrying out the alar plasty in a satisfactory way.
  
  
  METHODS
  50 cases of patients with Rhinoseptoplasty, with documented wide base and a wide columnella clinically and photographically; reduction of columnella was made by resection of two strips of skin at its base. Reducing the thickness of columnella and posterior alar plasty.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In 100% of the cases that we were managed to diminish the nasal base the results were satisfactory.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The resection of strips of skin in the base of the columnella is an effective and fast technique to reduce its volume and secondarily reducing the width of the nasal base.
authors.affiliation: fro@doctor.com
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Ramírez Oropeza
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Saynes Marín
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Herrera Chavez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D062109:Dermatologic Surgical Procedures; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009300:Nasal Septum / Q000601:surgery*; D009666:Nose / Q000601:surgery*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012225:Rhinoplasty / Q000379:methods*