Rhinophyma

Known as: Rhinophyma [Disease/Finding], Rhinophymas

Progressive enlargement of the nose due to hypertrophy of the sebaceous glands of the tip of the nose and fibrosis. It usually affects older men and…

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2003

Background: There are multiple surgical approaches to the treatment of rhinophyma. Because of the exceptional vascularity of the…

Review

1985

Review

1985

Treatment of rhinophyma is successful only with surgical methods. The operative techniques described in the literature are…

1983

Patients are aware when even minimal bulbosity appears secondary to acne rosacea. Many suffer psychic trauma as a result. Early…

1977

To the Editor. — Rhinophyma, a glandular hyperplastic type of acne rosacea, has been reported to be associated with carcinoma. 1…

1975

Fifteen patients with rhinophyma were treated surgically by cutting off the hyperplasia nodules with a scalpel followed by…

1973

MALIGNANCY of the nose is not uncommon, although comprising less than i per cent of total body neoplasms. Its reported incidence…

1955

1954

HISTORY PIT, SCAR, and blemish have since antiquity been the bane of patient and physician. The oldest medical document extant…

1942

Rhinophyma on rare occasions may be associated with enlargement of the forehead and chin. Sams 1 has reported the case of a woman…

1931

The treatment for rhinophyma, in spite of its definite pathologic changes, is far from uniform. This may be accounted for by the…