Nasal septal cartilage perichondritis
Nasal septal cartilage perichondritis
The cause of perichondritis of the nasal septum in children is more often an injury with a hematoma, an abscess, which leads to necrosis of its quadrangular cartilage due to inflammation of the perichondrium, often combined with an impaired blood supply to the cartilage. Nasal septal cartilage perichondritis occurs as a complication in infections, osteomyelitis of the upper jaw, chronic specific granulomatous diseases (tuberculosis, etc.).
Nasal septal cartilage perichondritis symptoms
Characterized by pain, difficulty in nasal breathing, fever, swelling in the cartilaginous part of the nasal septum.
Nasal septal cartilage perichondritis treatment
If conservative treatment fails, patients are operated on. The essence of the operation for perichondritis is excision of the cartilaginous septum of the nose within the healthy tissue of cartilage, drainage of purulent cavities, and resection of necrotic masses of the adjacent nasal bones with a bone spoon in osteomyelitis, etc.
See also
Nasal cavity diseases:
- Runny nose, acute rhinitis, rhinopharyngitis
- Allergic rhinitis and sinusitis, vasomotor rhinitis
- Chlamydial and Trichomonas rhinitis
- Chronic rhinitis: catarrhal, hypertrophic, atrophic
- Deviated nasal septum (DNS) and nasal bones deformation
- Nosebleeds (Epistaxis)
- External nose diseases: furunculosis, eczema, sycosis, erysipelas, frostbite
- Gonococcal rhinitis
- Changes of the nasal mucosa in influenza, diphtheria, measles and scarlet fever
- Nasal foreign bodies (NFBs)
- Nasal septal cartilage perichondritis
- Nasal septal hematoma, nasal septal abscess
- Nose injuries
- Ozena (atrophic rhinitis)
- Post-traumatic nasal cavity synechiae and choanal atresia
- Nasal scabs removing
- Rhinitis-like conditions (runny nose) in adolescents and adults
- Rhinogenous neuroses in adolescents and adults
- Smell (olfaction) disorders
- Subatrophic, trophic rhinitis and related pathologies
- Nasal breathing and olfaction (sense of smell) disorders in young children
Paranasal sinuses diseases:
- Acute and chronic frontal sinusitis (frontitis)
- Acute and chronic sphenoid sinusitis (sphenoiditis)
- Acute ethmoiditis (ethmoid sinus inflammation)
- Acute maxillary sinusitis (rhinosinusitis)
- Chronic ethmoid sinusitis (ethmoiditis)
- Chronic maxillary sinusitis (rhinosinusitis)
- Infantile maxillary sinus osteomyelitis
- Nasal polyps
- Paranasal sinuses traumatic injuries
- Rhinogenic orbital and intracranial complications
- Tumors of the nose and paranasal sinuses, sarcoidosis
