BACKGROUND Treatment of lacrimal sac abscess of the traditional surgical approach may result in complications from cutaneous fistula formation, damage the sac, cause skin scarring and even have the potential for inducing cicatricial ectropion. We designed a new treatment scheme that is expected to achieve internal drainage with the use of lacrimal probe and crawford silicon tube. METHODS A pr...

Background: Scarring (cicatricial) alopecia represents a complex group of inflammatory disorders, mainly characterized by destruction of the hair follicle unit. Lichen planopilaris (LPP) and discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) are the two main causes of primary cicatricial alopecia (PCA), both leading to hair follicle destruction and irreversible alopecia. However, they are different in pathogene...

We had the opportunity to manage a case of bilateral ectropion in a collodion baby. Collodion baby is a rare congenital disorder characterized by parchment like taught membrane covering the whole body. Incidence of this condition is 1 in 300,000 live births.1 A three months old collodion baby was referred to us for management of bilateral ectropion. An appropriate-forgestational-age boy was bor...

OSTEOMYELITIS of the maxilla in infants is a rare but well-recognized clinical entity. Asherson (1939) collected 42 cases from the literature and reviewed the condition in detail. He stated that the mortality was 25 per cent. and remarked upon the frequency of such sequelae as cicatricial ectropion and sequestrum formation which require plastic surgery. He also emphasized the frequency with whi...

A 28 year old albino man presented with a cicatricial alopecic plaque on the vertex. The patient had multiple hairs emerging from a single dilated follicular opening. Following inflammatory changes, new tufted hair appeared in spite of several periods of antibiotic treatment, and the disorder followed a relapsing and destructive course. Tufted hair folliculitis (THF) is a relapsing localiz...

BACKGROUND Traditional facelift techniques have some limitations: superficial musculo-aponeurotic system (SMAS) dissection may be incomplete in the superior medial orbitomalar region, and the centrofacial approach does not incorporate SMAS elevation. OBJECTIVES Orbitomalar suspension (OMS) during high SMAS facelift combines the best of other techniques and may enhance aesthetic results and im...