A manifestation of severe ROSACEA resulting in significant enlargement of the NOSE and occurring primarily in men. It is caused by hypertrophy of the SEBACEOUS GLANDS and surrounding CONNECTIVE TISSUE. The nose is reddened and marked with TELANGIECTASIS.
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| "Rhinophyma is the end stage of acne rosacea, which results in a large nose due to a proliferation of sebaceous glands and fibrous tissue." | ( Roenigk, RK, 1987) |
| "Rhinophyma is an uncommon condition that often results in both functional as well as cosmetic impairment." | ( Hoasjoe, DK; Stucker, FJ, 1995) |
| "Rhinophyma is a slowly progressive, disfiguring disorder of the nose which represents the end stage of acne rosacea." | ( Sharma, VL; Simo, R, 1996) |
| "Rhinophyma is a benign, disfiguring disorder of the nose which presents the end stage of acne rosacea, and can also occasionally result in nasal airway obstruction." | ( Frand, J; Haik, J; Kaplan, H; Orenstein, A; Tamir, J; Winkler, E; Zilinsky, I, 2001) |
| "Rhinophyma is the commonest among them." | ( Jansen, T; Plewig, G, 1998) |
| "Laser ablation of rhinophyma is a stress-minimizing procedure for the surgeon and the patient, as it is nearly bloodless and can be performed under local anesthesia." | ( Jovanovic, S; Sedlmaier, B, 1998) |
| "Rhinophyma is a slowly progressive disfiguring disorder of the nose that represents the end stage of acne rosacea." | ( Sharma, VL; Simo, R, 1998) |
| "Rhinophyma is a common condition in the west of Scotland." | ( Choudhary, S; Curnier, A, 2002) |
| "Rhinophyma is an uncommon progressively disfiguring process of the nose which occurs most often in middle-aged white men." | ( Bier, J; Klein, M; Raguse, JD; Schrader, T; Schwerdtner, O, 2004) |
| "Rhinophyma is a relatively common condition in the west of Scotland." | ( Choudhary, S; Curnier, A, 2004) |
| "Rhinophyma is an uncommon disease of the nose characterized by irregular skin thickening and nodular deformation." | ( Aberer, W; Arbab, E; Scharnagl, E; Schintler, MV; Spendel, S, 2006) |
| "Rhinophyma is a slowly progressive, benign dermatological disorder of the nose." | ( Baptista, A; Guedes, R; Leite, I; Moreira, A; Mota, G, 2010) |
| "Rhinophyma is characterized by a slow progressive enlargement of the nasal skin that cannot resolve spontaneously." | ( Arikan, OK; Cirpar, O; Muluk, NB, 2010) |
| "Rhinophyma is a subtype of rosacea which develops at the advanced stage of rosacea and is characterized by an excessive enlargement of the sebaceous glands." | ( Aytekin, AH; Elmas, O; Erbatur, S; Firat, C, 2012) |
| "Rhinophyma is characterized by slowly progressive tumour-like enlargement of the nasal skin that will not resolve spontaneously." | ( Agostini, T; Grassetti, L; Huemer, GM; Larcher, L; Lazzeri, D; Li, Q; Pantaloni, M; Riml, S; Spinelli, G; Zhang, YX, 2013) |
| "Rhinophyma is a progressive nasal deformity resulting from hyperplasia of the sebaceous glands and connective tissue, with a negative effect on quality of life." | ( Averbeck, M; Kendler, M; Simon, JC; Wetzig, T, 2013) |
| "Rhinophyma is a swelling of the soft tissue of the nose due to sebaceous gland hypertrophy, lymphoedema and fibrosis." | ( Lakhani, R; Panesar, J; Shah, A, 2013) |
| "Rhinophyma is a disfiguring condition etiologically related to rosacea and due to hypertrophy of the sebaceous glands of the nose." | ( Arnež, ZM; Franchi, A; Novati, FC; Ramella, V; Roggio, T, 2015) |
| "Whereas early rhinophyma is histopathologically thought to resemble fully developed rosacea, a fibromatous variant has previously been described for severe rhinophyma." | ( Kreuz, M; Schüürmann, M; Wetzig, T; Wickenhauser, C; Ziemer, M; Ziepert, M, 2015) |
| "Rhinophyma is a form of rosacea and is often cosmetically disfiguring." | ( Karsai, S; Pohl, L; Raulin, C, 2018) |
| "Rhinophyma is a rare disease characterized by chronic inflammation and hypertrophy of sebaceous glands, blood vessels, and fibrous tissue, associated with end-stage severe acne rosacea." | ( Cui, MY; Guo, S; Jin, SF; Lv, MZ; Wang, CC, 2019) |
| "Rhinophyma is a rare manifestation of rosacea." | ( Borzęcki, A; Sajdak-Wojtaluk, A; Strus-Rosińska, B; Turska, M, 2019) |
| "Rhinophyma is a skin disorder which causes nose enlargement and deformation due to proliferation of sebaceous glands and connective tissue." | ( Borzęcki, A; Turska, M, 2020) |
| "Although rhinophyma is considered to be a subtype of rosacea, here we hypothesise whether it is a separate disease with mechanical trauma as a main reason of the disease progress." | ( Borzęcki, A; Turska, M, 2020) |
| "Rhinophyma is a progressive and disfiguring thickening of the nasal skin." | ( Daoud, M; Kumar, R; Raghavan, U; Ullas, G, 2021) |
| "Rhinophyma is a progressive disease of the nose, which is characterised by skin thickening and sebaceous hyperplasia." | ( Goh, M; Gönen, ZB; Ilankovan, V; Sayan, A, 2021) |
| "Rhinophyma is a benign disease involving the skin of the nose, which is characterized by skin thickening and hypertrophy of the sebaceous glands and connective tissue." | ( Huseynov, J; Mozet, C, 2020) |
| "Rhinophyma is a rare and benign pathological condition affecting the nose." | ( Abbate, V; Arena, A; Bonavolontà, P; Califano, L; Giovanni, DO; Goglia, F; Iaconetta, G; Romano, A, 2020) |
| "Rhinophyma is a disfiguring disorder that is characterized by an erythematous, hypertrophied, and inflamed lower two-thirds of the nose." | ( Gotkin, RH; Kassirer, SS; Sarnoff, DS, 2021) |