[Secondary rhinoplasty (analysis of failures over a 5-year period)]

It is well known that secondary or revised rhinoplasty is big problem in plastic surgery. During the five year period (1987-1991) 273 rhinoplastic surgeries were done at the ORL-clinic in Rijeka, out of which 42 have been submitted to revision (15.2%). We divided the postsurgical deformations, according to the anatomical criterion, into 3 groups; the upper, the lower and the middle part of the nose. The most frequent deformations of the lower, middle and upper third of the nose are acute septolabial angle, i.e. a dependent tip (19%), pollybeak (33%) and excessive dorsal removal (21%), respectively. The cases have been systematically studied out.