purpose : to introduce a small incision technique of fascia lata (fl) harvesting for frontalis suspension blepharoptosis procedure. methods : a skin incision was made in a line between the lateral condyle of the tibia and the anterior superior iliac crest, starting 4- 5 cm above the knee and extending upward 2- 2.5 cm . approximately 8 cm superior to the first incision, a second skin incision w...

INTRODUCTION Our objective was to study jitter parameters using a concentric needle electrode (CNE) in the extensor digitorum (ED) and frontalis (FR) muscles. METHODS Twenty myasthenia gravis (MG) patients, mean age 44.5 years, were studied. Percutaneous (FR) and intramuscular needle (ED) stimulation approaches were used. Jitter was expressed as the mean consecutive difference (MCD). The filt...

The three most common Ixodes spp. ticks found on songbirds in Western Europe are Ixodes frontalis, I. arboricola and I. ricinus. As the latter species is a generalist, it shares several avian hosts with the two strictly ornithophilic species. Infestations of the three species can overlap in time and space, implying that tick-borne pathogens maintained by the ornithophilic ticks and their hosts ...

The use of parallel structures, such as a Stewart platform (SP), for machine tools is a current trend. Some powerful analytical tools are needed to analyse the effect of errors in parallel structures. A model of a SP was analysed to include all the sources of errors [1]. We developed a similar error model to a Stewart platform and a Modified Stewart platform (MSP). Both SP and MSP designs have ...

We evaluated the effectiveness of 4-allylanisole (4AA) as a protective treatment for loblolly pines threatened by the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann. Three products were evaluated in combination with two methods that promoted attack of trees by D. frontalis. One method used attractive semiochemicals and the other decreased host resistance, both of which are important sc...

165 Leiomyoma is a benign proliferation of smooth muscle cells that may be found in various anatomical locations. Leiomyoma of the uterus is the most common, and there have been a few case reports of extra-uterine leiomyomas including on the hand, foot, esophagus, trachea, heart, and even in vessels. However, there have been no reports of leiomyoma of the frontalis muscle. We present a case of ...

Material and Methods: Retrospective review of all cases of ptosis surgery performed between January 2000 and June 2005 in one of the units of Institute of Ophthalmology, Mayo Hospital, Lahore. Patients with levator function of less than 4 mm in the worst affected eye were included. All patients undergoing frontalis sling with materials other than fascia lata and all children under 5 years were ...

purpose: to compare the results of two different methods of frontalis suspension using fascia lata in congenital ptosis. methods: in a randomized clinical trial, double triangle sling was compared with single triangle sling using fascia lata. eight patients with unilateral and 11 patients with bilateral congenital ptosis were randomly assigned for each procedure. results: there was no statistic...

OBJECTIVE Infrared (IR) irradiation specialized with wavelengths and contact cooling increases the amount of water in the dermis to protect the subcutaneous tissues against IR damage; thus, it is applied to smooth forehead wrinkles. However, this treatment consistently induces brow ptosis. Therefore, we investigated whether IR irradiation induces muscle thinning. METHODS Rat central back tiss...