[Dermoid cyst of the nose]

Dermoid cyst of the nose may present difficult management problems if inadequately evaluated preoperatively or if incompletely excited. The most important is to differentiate them from nasal gliomas, meningocoeles et encephalocoeles. The Otolaryngological Clinic of Jagiellonian University in Cracow presented a review of the congenital midline nasal mass during 1945 and 1992 year. If a dermal fistule appears, it may be identified as a cutaneous defect leading from the midline of the nose. If this dermal fistule is connected with the skin of the nose it is called a dermal fistula dorsi nasi.