background: vestibular schwannoma (vs) is one of the skull base tumors originating from vestibular portion of eighth cranial nerve. recently, 2 micro-thulium laser is used in the surgery of some intracranial tumors. objectives: assessing the efficacy of 2 micro-thulium flexible hand-held laser fiber (revolixjrò) in microsurgical removal of vs. materials and methods: this retrospective non-rando...

According to the facial feedback hypothesis (FFH) one's own expressions have a corresponding impact on subjective experience of emotion. Inspired by Strack, et al. [1] participants in present study hold wooden stick between teeth (forming smile) or lips sulky face) while rating humorous films. In contrast FFH it was found that people scoring low emotional empathy rated films as less funny happy...

this paper presents a new modified technique for ear and eyebrow reconstruction which was used to reconstruct facial injuries caused by burns, excision of malignant tumors, depressed traumatic scars and a low hairline defect around the auricular region.' other facial reconstructions carried out by this procedure were also highly successful and without complications.

Introduction: Varicella-zoster virus may cause an infectious disease called Ramsay Hunt syndrome. The related symptoms include facial nerve palsy (FNP), otalgia, the vesicular eruptions of the auricle and external auditory canal, less common ocular movement disorder, facial hypoesthesia, myofascial pain, vestibular symptoms, hearing loss, dysphasia, vocal cord paralysis, as well as tongue paral...