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Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2002;4:177-179.

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SOME TENETS of septorhinoplasty are relatively universally accepted and include the concept that structural grafting is best done with autogenous materials.^1-4 The graft-depleted revision septorhinoplasty patient and other septorhinoplasty patients with major structural grafting requirements provide unique challenges. Many autogenous materials are useful in these cases and include septal cartilage and bone, conchal cartilage, costal cartilage, rib bone and costal cartilage combination graft, calvarial bone, and iliac crest bone. The article by Cakmak and Ergin⁵ describes their experience with 20 cases in which costal cartilage was used as the primary structural and nonstructural graft material.

As Cakmak and Ergin⁵ and others^{1, 3} have pointed out, costal cartilage is available in abundant quantities and can be harvested with minimal morbidity. As these authors describe, and as observed in my own experience, costal cartilage is an ideal material for septal replacement grafts, spreader grafts, and columellar struts secondary to its exceptional rigidity compared . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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