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  • Title: Long-term follow-up of nasomaxillary epithelial inlay skin graft for the saddle nose.
    Author: Okazaki M, Ohmori K, Akizuki T.
    Journal: Plast Reconstr Surg; 2003 Jul; 112(1):64-70. PubMed ID: 12832878.
    Abstract:
    The nasomaxillary epithelial inlay skin graft described by H. D. Gillies in 1923 is one of the historical procedures of the twentieth century. Nowadays, this method has been thoroughly abandoned, and no long-term follow-up has been reported. In the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, between 1962 and 1983, 51 patients with saddle nose were treated using this procedure and a specially devised outer prosthesis. A follow-up study of these cases was attempted and that of nine cases was carried out. Six of nine patients have been using the outer prosthesis without any serious complications and are satisfied to varying extent. Three patients underwent further surgical treatment using autografts because of serious complications, which included full-thickness skin necrosis, refractory ulcer of the dorsum of nose, and anxiety about the unphysiological communication between the nasal and oral cavities.
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