Greater alar cartilage is a flexible cartilage that forms part of the structure of the nostrils. Lateral nasal cartilage is a triangular structure, located below the nasal bone.

Engineered autologous cartilage tissue for nasal reconstruction after tumour resection: an observational first-in-human trial. The Lancet , 2014; DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60544-4 Cite This Page : ...

Cartilage cells were extracted from the patient's nasal septum, multiplied and expanded onto a collagen membrane. The so-called engineered cartilage was then shaped according to the defect and ...

image: classification and treatment algorithm for nasal alar defect. view more . Credit: Renpeng Zhou, Dongze Lyu, Chen Wang, Danru Wang. The nose occupies the most prominent part of the face.

Key Takeaways Cartilage cells taken from the nose can be used to repair knee injuriesPeople experienced improvements with knee cartilage grafts grown from nasal septum cellsGrafts grown for longer ...

Researchers in Switzerland just performed the first reconstructive nasal surgery using lab-grown cartilage . Rachel Nuwer. April 14, 2014. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

For the study, Martin and colleagues took a small sample of cartilage cells from the patient’s nose bone, then grew more cells by exposing them to growth hormone for two weeks.

Cartilage-making cells in the nose seem to produce a worthy stand-in for the cartilage lost at the tips of bones in damaged knee joints, a study in goats suggests.

Scientists at the University of Basel report first ever successful nose reconstruction surgery using cartilage grown in the laboratory. Cartilage cells were extracted from the patient's nasal ...