Abstract

Mucocele formation is a very rare complication of rhinoplasty surgery, with only 26 incidences documented in the medical literature. Postrhinoplasty nasal mucoceles are believed to result from the growth of ectopic nasal respiratory epithelium displaced during the rhinoplasty procedure. Although most cases of nasal mucocele present within weeks of rhinoplasty surgery, exceptional accounts describe nasal mucoceles presenting years after rhinoplasty. This case report describes an extremely delayed case of dorsal nasal mucocele that presented 21years after the patient underwent a septorhinoplasty. The aesthetically bothersome mucocele was successfully removed with an open rhinoplasty approach, and the histopathologic analysis was consistent with a simple benign mucous retention cyst. The history, etiology, and prevention of mucocele formation in rhinoplasty surgery also are discussed. This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .

Highlights

  • Mucocele formation is an exceedingly rare complication of rhinoplasty

  • Mucocele formation is a very rare complication of rhinoplasty surgery, with only 26 incidences documented in the medical literature

  • We report a case of very delayed mucous cyst formation treated surgically via an open rhinoplasty approach

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Summary

Introduction

Mucocele formation is an exceedingly rare complication of rhinoplasty. Given the large number of rhinoplasty operations performed (in the USA, 243,772 rhinoplasties were performed in 2011 alone), only 26 cases complicated by the postoperative development of a mucocele have been documented (Table 1) [1]. The first theory was reported by McGregor et al [3] in 1958 after a patient blew her nose on postoperative day 5 and subsequently experienced the development of a cyst. These authors theorized that the mucocele resulted from nasal mucosal tissue forcibly herniated through the infracture site. We report a case of very delayed mucous cyst formation treated surgically via an open rhinoplasty approach. This case report was deemed exempt from ethical review by the University of California-Irvine, Office of the Research Institutional Review Board

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Kulak Burun Bogaz Ihtis Derg
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