Salvage of Infected Nasal Reconstruction with a Polymethyl Methacrylate Spacer
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Pedro C. Cavadas; Yvan D. Pacheco; Alessandro Thione
- Source
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, Vol 5, Iss 7 (2017)
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open
- Subject
- 030222 orthopedics
Polymethyl methacrylate
business.industry
Cartilage
lcsh:Surgery
Dentistry
Case Report
lcsh:RD1-811
equipment and supplies
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
medicine
Surgery
Clinical case
Total nasal reconstruction
business
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2169-7574
Summary:. Total nasal reconstruction is a challenging multistage procedure. Infections can destroy the cartilage framework and seriously compromise the result. The use of polymethyl methacrylate with antibiotics as a spacer has been described in the treatment of skeletal infections. Using this same principle, the use of a polymethyl methacrylate with antibiotics spacer for an infected nasal reconstruction is reported in a clinical case.