Abstract
There are definite indications for employment of plastic operations even in the urgent days of wartime military practice. 1 Their use should be restricted to correction of deformities acquired in military service, but an exception to this rule should be made when a preexisting deformity constitutes a definite hazard to health and, rarely, when gross disfigurement of the patient has resulted in an anxiety neurosis under the stress of war. The need of plastic repair is self evident in gross destruction of the nose or portions of it by missiles, burns and other destructive agents, including cancer and infection, and it is not the purpose of this paper to review methods of compensating for these losses by free skin grafts or flaps. Only methods of correction of abnormalities of the bony and cartilaginous skeletal support of the nose are included under the term nasal plastic; 2 they are discussed because their
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