title: The Bony Cartilaginous Unit.
abstract: To achieve an acceptable result in septorhinoplasty, sufficient septal cartilage is needed. There are many cases in which septal cartilage is insufficient, especially in revision surgery or in some races such as Asian. To obtain an ideal outcome, a bony cartilaginous unit (septal cartilage/ethmoid bone composite graft) is proposed as a versatile graft for different purpose such as caudal extension graft.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Imam Khomeini Medical Complex, Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Keshavarz Boulevard, Dr. Gharib Avenue, Tehran, Iran. asazgar@sina.tums.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Amir A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Sazgar
authors.affiliation: Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Razfar
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Imam Khomeini Medical Complex, Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Keshavarz Boulevard, Dr. Gharib Avenue, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Nargess
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mikaniki
mesh_terms: D002356:Cartilage / Q000637:transplantation; D064595:Composite Tissue Allografts / Q000637:transplantation*; D005004:Ethmoid Bone / Q000637:transplantation; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D009300:Nasal Septum / Q000601:surgery*; D009666:Nose / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D012225:Rhinoplasty / Q000379:methods*; D013718:Tensile Strength; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods
keywords: Bony cartilaginous unit; Ethmoid bone; Rhinoplasty; Septal cartilage; Septal extension graft