Reconstruction of a Nasal Injury Caused by a Horse Bite: Case Report

In this context, we present a rare case of a pediatric patient who was bitten by a horse. The child had a subtotal nasal amputation. In the literature, there are examples about injuries of different animals. But to the best of our knowledge, there is no data about a nasal horse- bite and its reconstruction in the literature. Bites almost always cause defective crush injuries. We reconstructed the defect by applying a tissue expander to a paramedian forehead flap. This flap provided a well-vascularized, color-matched skin with appropriate thickness and covered the tip, columella and one-third of the alae.