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Repair of nasal septal perforations using local mucosal flaps and a composite cartilage graft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

T. J. Woolford  and
N. S. Jones
T. J. Woolford
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK.
N. S. Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK.
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Abstract

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The surgical closure of a nasal septal perforation is recognized as being particularly challenging. A series of 11 consecutive patients who underwent closure of a septal perforation using a mucosal flap/composite conchal cartilage graft technique are reviewed, and the surgical technique described. The size of the perforation repaired varied, with eight cases being 2 cm or more in diameter. There was no significant graft donor site morbidity and complete perforation closure was achieved in eight cases after a mean observation time of 19.8 months. These results suggest that this is a suitable technique for closing nasal septal perforation.

Keywords

Nasal SeptumFistulaSurgical ProceduresOperative
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 115 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 22 - 25
Copyright
© Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2001