Three cases of plastic nasal surgery : for saddle-shaped nose, removal of entire nose, and arched Roman nose : a paper read before the Philadelphia County Medical Society, February 26, 1896 / by W.W. Keen.

  • Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Three cases of plastic nasal surgery : for saddle-shaped nose, removal of entire nose, and arched Roman nose : a paper read before the Philadelphia County Medical Society, February 26, 1896 / by W.W. Keen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the two plates was left vacant, but was en- tirely closed by soldering them together. The picture gives a front view of the plate. This made the piece to be inserted much lighter than it otherwise would have been. All around the margin a row of small holes was drilled, which, it had occurred to me, would fix the plate firmly in place by granu- lation tissue pushing through the apertures Fig. 3. and being probably later transformed into fibrous tissue. The plate was then polished and heavily gold-plated. On April 19, 1895, a transverse incision was made just above the alae of the nose, and the superficial tissues loosened as far as the lower border of the frontal bone on each side, and slightly toward the tip, below the trans- verse incision. My object in loosening the