[Surgical anatomy of the nose. I]

Since a few years, more and more papers are published in the international literature about nasal anatomy, probably because of the growing popularity of the open rhinoplasty. So, new concepts, new anatomic entities have been established without equivalent in the French literature. The authors review the most recent notions of the surgical anatomy of the nose and propose a french terminology for several concepts developed in the international literature (e.g. supratip breakpoint). The surgical anatomy of the external nose is described.