Abstract
1. We reported the two cases of medianfissure of nose. The first case: A boy (one year old).
We have attained our purpose of the plastic operation by carring an incision on the nasal dorsum and approximating the alar cartilages in the midline with cutgut sutures.
The second case: A girl having a considerably advanced fissure of nose. (shortly after birth). After having sutured the alar cartilages as in the first case and removed the surplus skin, we inserted a preserved cartilage of a leaf-type, and last, sutured the skin. However, as there occurred a suppuration, we have attained our purpose of the plastic operation by using a forehead skin flap secondarily. We have not found yet in medical literatures a case like the above that a plastic operation is carried at the early stage (which means right after one's birth).
2. Median fissures of nose are classified by the grade in its badness.
3. As the median fissures is in danger of giving the cases an obstruction in their social activities, it is considered that the plastic operation should be carried at the earliest possible according to each case.
