Nasal reconstruction of a patient with complete congenital arhinia: A clinical report

Abstract

Complete congenital arhinia is a rare embryonic disorder of unknown etiology. This is a clinical report of prosthetic nasal rehabilitations done in the early childhood and adolescent stages of a patient with complete congenital arhinia. Additive manufacturing techniques for creating pre-surgical planning models to assist in the creation of new nasal passages is also described. These rare cases can be successfully rehabilitated if patients are sufficiently motivated and there is meticulous planning and collaboration from a multidisciplinary team.

Congenital arhinia : a neonatal case report

“…Due to the rarity of the disease, there is no best surgical treatment. A wide variety of surgical interventions have been proposed, including placement of a nasal prosthesis (17) or nasal reconstruction with maxillary osteotomy and local flaps (9,10).…”

Reconstruction of Congenital Arhinia With Stereolithographic Modeling: Case Correlate and Literature Review

“…Table 1 reports additional physical features of the 43 cases surveyed in our literature review (Palmer and Thomson, 1967;Berger and Martin, 1969;Gifford et al, 1972;Lu ¨tolf, 1976;Ruprecht and Majewski, 1978;Das Gupta et al, 1979;Kaminker et al, 1985;Shubich and Sanchez, 1985;Cohen and KJ, 1986;Cole et al, 1989;Navarro-Vila et al, 1991;Mu ¨hlbauer et al, 1993;Weinberg et al, 1993;LaTrenta et al, 1995;Albernaz et al, 1996;Thiele et al, 1996;Meyer, 1997;Olsen et al, 2001;McGlone, 2003;Feledy et al, 2004;Hour, 2004;Mathur et al, 2005;Shino et al, 2005;Akkuzu et al, 2007;Sato et al, 2007;Goyal et al, 2008;Brusati et al, 2009;Cesaretti et al, 2011;Fakhraee et al, 2011;Takcı et al, 2012;Tryggestad et al, 2013;Ali, 2014;Courtney et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2014;Li et al, 2015;Fernandes et al, 2016;Mondal and Prasad, 2016;Ng et al, 2017;Borghi et al, 2019;Jung et al, 2019;…”