Nasal glial heterotopia with cleft palate

Abstract

Congenital midline nasal masses are rare anomalies of which nasal glial heterotopia represents an even rarer subset. We report a case of a 25-day-old male child with nasal glial heterotopia along with cleft palate suggesting embryonic fusion anomaly which was treated with excision and primary closure for nasal mass followed by palatal repair at later date.

Keywords

• Cleft palate
• midline nasal masses
• nasal glial heterotopia
• nasal glioma