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I read with much interest the article by Drs Lee and Glasgold¹ in the October-December 2001 issue of the ARCHIVES entitled "Correction of Nasal Valve Stenosis With Lateral Suture Suspension." However, their assertion that nasal valve stenosis "commonly presents as a postoperative complication of rhinoplasty" is erroneous, based on my personal experience and the published literature.

Acceptable revision rates after primary rhinoplasty commonly range from 5% to 10%, which is certainly not "common." Of those conditions requiring revision surgery, nasal valve stenosis should be relatively infrequent. In reviewing 2 major rhinoplasty texts,^2-3 neither lists nasal valve stenosis as a common complication of rhinoplasty. In my practice, which includes about 50 revision rhinoplasties per year, nasal valve stenosis is rare.

Unfortunately, I believe the authors have confused nasal valve stenosis with nasal valve collapse. Stenosis is defined as "an abnormal constriction or narrowing of a duct, passage or opening in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Correction of Nasal Valve Stenosis With Lateral Suture Suspension
Derek S. Lee and Alvin I. Glasgold
Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2001;3(4):237-240.
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