The lost muscles of the nose.

This is a review of the muscular anatomy of the nose. Areas of inconsistency in the main anatomy texts are highlighted and concentrate particularly on the omission of three identifiable muscles from modern textbooks. Two topographical areas of the nose in need of further anatomical development are identified.

Localised varicosities in a 39-year-old tissue transfer to the lower limb.

The typical symptoms and signs of venous stasis disease with ulceration were found in a lower limb reconstruction within the tissues of a tube pedicled abdominal wall tissue transfer, performed 39 years previously. Varicosities were found on venogram to be limited to the donor tissue only.