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Surface Aesthetics and Soft Tissue Envelope

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Why is the soft tissue envelope (STE) so important in the planning and execution of a rhinoplasty operation? Put simply, the nasal skin envelope covers the underlying osseocartilaginous structures, preventing the surgeon from seeing the true nasal deformity preoperatively and often limiting or compromising the postoperative result. Most surgeons consider skin redraping and remodeling to be the greatest uncertainty in the healing process. The essential purpose of this chapter is to teach the reader how to “see through” the skin and understand the underlying tip and dorsal anatomy.

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  1. Department of Plastic Surgery, University of California Irvine, Newport Beach, California, USA

    Rollin K. Daniel MD

  2. Department of Anatomy, Histology & Embryology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

    Péter Pálházi MD

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Daniel, R.K., Pálházi, P. (2018). Surface Aesthetics and Soft Tissue Envelope. In: Rhinoplasty. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67314-1_1

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