Abstract:Objective:To study the surgical methods for repairing nasal alar defects and their therapeutic effect. Methods:Clinical data of 12 patients with nasal alar defects caused by various reasons, which repaired by using nasal labial pedicled skin flap and nasal septal pedicled chondromucosal flap was analyzed retrospectively. Results:Followed up for one to three years postoperatively, the hollow nasal alar occurred in one case, due to necrosis of septal chondromucosal flap; all the other patients got satisfying appearance of nasal alar. Conclusions:With advantages of simple manipulation, little trauma, similarities in color, texture, and thickness between nasal labial pedicled skin flap and nasal alar, and with underlining and support of septal pedicled chondromucosal flap, nasal alar defects can be repaired satisfactorily with combination of these two kinds of flaps.
