Perelomy kostey nosa yavlyayutsya naibolee chasto vstrechaemoy travmoy litsevogo skeleta i LOR organov, prichinoy obrashcheniya k otorinolaringologu po ekstrennym i neotlozhnym pokazaniyam. Diagnostika pereloma osnovyvaetsya na dannykh klinicheskogo i instrumental"nogo obsledovaniya patsienta. Klinicheski udaetsya postavit" diagnoz lish" u poloviny obrativshikhsya patsientov, ratsional"no podobrannyy algoritm doobsledovaniya privodit k postanovke tochnogo diagnoza, pozvolyaet svoevremenno vyyavit" oslozhneniya pereloma kostey nosa. Naibolee chastym oslozhneniem pereloma yavlyaetsya deformatsiya naruzhnogo nosa. Vybor optimal"noy taktiki lecheniya pozvolyaet likvidirovat" neblagopriyatnye kosmeticheskie i fiziologicheskie posledstviya travmy, adekvatnaya anesteziya pozvolyaet provesti vmeshatel"stvo bezboleznenno. V rabote predstavlen obzor literaturnykh i sobstvennykh dannykh po epidemiologii, diagnostike i lecheniyu perelomov kostey nosa. Privedeny algoritmy diagnostiki, postanovki klinicheskogo diagnoza, taktiki lecheniya, vybora metodiki obezbolivaniya pri perelomakh kostey nosa, obespechivayushchie effektivnost" meditsinskikh meropriyatiy.