Atresia of a postnaris

Description:

Nasal cavity atresia (atresia of a postnaris) – connective tissue, cartilaginous or bone unions, partially or completely closing a nose gleam.

Reasons of an atresia of a postnaris:

Seldom happen inborn, are a consequence of smallpox, diphtheria, typhus, a system lupus erythematosus, syphilis, a scleroma, an injury or cauterizations in a nose with the medical purpose (galvanocauter) more often.

Symptoms of an atresia of a postnaris:

Anomalies of development of an outside nose in expressiveness are subdivided into subgroups:
absence or underdevelopment of body;
overdevelopment of all body or part it;
abnormal arrangement of body or its separate parts.

Rare anomalies of development are lack of one half of a nose, lack of wings of a nose, doubling of nostrils, a side trunk of a nose, sharply expressed bifurcation of an outside nose. Such anomalies are combined with other malformations (failure of union of an upper lip, an alveolar shoot and a hard palate).

Diagnose an atresia of a postnaris carrying out a plastic catheter through a nose in a pharyngeal cavity, differentiating from an injury of mucous membranes of the nasal courses and from foreign bodys. Final confirmation of the diagnosis of an atresia of a postnaris receive on the profile roentgenogram of a skull after introduction to the nasal courses 1 ml of Iodolipolum.

Treatment of an atresia of a postnaris:

Treatment is operational. The term of intervention has to be individual.