IMPORTANCE Extracorporeal septoplasty (ECS) in rhinoplasty is a useful surgical procedure that can achieve considerable functional and aesthetic improvements in the treatment of a deviated nose. However, to our knowledge, no study has compared the treatment outcomes of ECS with those of in situ septal correction (ISSC) in rhinoplasty.OBJECTIVE To compare the surgical outcomes of ECS with those of conventional ISSC in the treatment of a deviated nose. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTSWe retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 169 patients who underwent rhinoplasty from July 1, 2006, through December 31, 2012. For ECS, we used a modified technique. For ISSC, several techniques, including batten and spreader grafting and caudal cutting and suture, were used alone or in combination. Eighty-four patients underwent ECS. The remaining 85 patients, who were age-and sex-matched controls who were operated on at a similar time point, were treated by ISSC for the correction of a deviated nose.MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Surgical outcomes were assessed and compared using the anthropometric measurement of photographs and by reviewing medical records to evaluate functional outcomes and complications after surgery.RESULTS There were 52 I-shape (61.9%) and 32 C-shape (38.1%) types of external nose deviations in the ECS group. There were 59 I-shape (69.4%) and 26 C-shape (30.6%) types of external nose deviations in the ISSC group. Postoperative deviation angle (P < .001), nasofrontal (P < .05) and nasolabial (P < .001) angles, and nasal tip projection (P < .001) values were significantly improved from the preoperative values in both groups. The mean operating times of ECS and ISSC were 135 and 128 minutes, respectively. The rates of complications, such as an irregular contour of the dorsum, saddling, and postoperative infection, were similar between the 2 groups. However, no patients in the ECS group experienced postoperative nasal obstruction, whereas 5 of 78 patients (6.4%) in the ISSC group experienced persistent or unresolved nasal obstruction that required revision septoplasty. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCEWe found that ECS is a useful technique for markedly deviated noses that can achieve a comparable aesthetic success but better functional outcome than ISSC in rhinoplasty.LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 3.
The high prevalence of HRV in CRS patients was confirmed in our study. However, we were unable to determine whether certain HRV serotypes are more predominant in CRS patients than non-CRS controls. HRV-A13 was the most common serotype in both CRS patients and non-CRS controls. We could not find any differences in the clinical characteristics according to the HRV serotypes in CRS patients.
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