Scroll Ligament Repair in Dorsal Preservation Rhinoplasty: A Cartilage as a Guide on Nasal Skin Envelope for Suturing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The scroll ligament provides support to the internal and external valve, and its repair in rhinoplasty provides good functional and aesthetic results. In this study, it was aimed to repair the scroll ligament complex by leaving cartilage in the nasal skin envelope, and clinical results were shared.

Patients and methods

216 patients who underwent closed preservation rhinoplasty with modified low septal strip septoplasty were included in the study. A 10 x 1 mm of cartilage is left in the nasal skin envelope at the midpoint of the cranial part of the lateral crus of the LLC, leaving it as a guide to repair the scroll ligament complex in the anatomically correct place. Demographic data, complications, revision surgeries, follow-up periods and satisfaction of the patie

SUBMITTER: Tuluy Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12454462 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature