[Regenerative medicine: the research progress of cartilage tissue engineering in rhinology].

Summary In recent years, the cartilage tissue engineering technology has rapid development, and shows a bright prospect in the field of cartilage defect and repair. In this paper, the field of rhinology cartilage tissue engineering research progress were reviewed, with the purpose to understand the status quo, and determine the next step research direction. From the research in recent years, we found that although cartilage tissue engineering technique could play an important role in the field of rhinology, but the progress to date was still lagging behind. In the published literature, there were few basic and applied research about cartilage tissue engineering techniques for nasal diseases. There have a small amount of applied research report, mainly concentrated in the animal experiments. There are still quite a distance from a wide range of clinical application. Based on the existing research results, cartilage tissue engineering technique in nasal plastic and reconstruction surgery has great potential in clinic application and needs more further research. Copyright© by the Editorial Department of Journal of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery.