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Rapid Communication| Volume 28, ISSUE 3, P153-154, July 1975

Congenital double columella

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      Abstract

      Although a double columella may occur in certain severe cases of bifid nose, where the halves of the nose are completely separate and there is often a concomitant midline cleft of the upper lip (
      • Kazanjian V.H.
      • Holmes E.M.
      Treatment of median cleft lip associated with bifid nose and hypertelorism.
      ), we have been unable to find in the literature another example of the deformity presented here.

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