Functional recovery in subjects undergoing nasal surgery: a new therapeutic strategy

The histological layer covering the nasal cavities entails a series of strata in the craniocaudal sense: epithelial layer, basal membrane, lymphoid layer, glandular layer, and vascular layer (1). The epithelial component is the most sensitive to the traumatic damage induced by surgical interventions on the nasal area. The nasal mucosa is constituted by a pseudostratified richly vascularized, ciliated columnar epithelium, and includes numerous muciparous goblet cells and glands of the lamina propria (2). The nasal mucosa’s importance entails the high functional specificity of its constituent elements, including inspired air climatization and filtration, defense against pathogens and pollutants, and olfaction.