DESCRIPTION This patient is a 76-year-old man with medical history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and multiple squamous cell skin cancers. Four years prior, he underwent dermatographic resection of a squamous cell carcinoma of the right cheek that had involved the right facial nerve. Two years later, the lesion recurred. Radical resection with control of free margins was performed by the h...

1Raviraj GA, 2Thomas Rony, 3Dhanraj GA, 4Vishal US Rao 1Reader, Department of Pedodontics, KGF Dental College, KGF, Karnataka, India 2Assistant Professor, Department of ENT, MOSC Medical College, Kolenchery, Kerala, India 3Professor, Department of ENT, Annayya ENT Centre, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 4Assistant Professor, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, RR Medical College, Bengaluru, Karnat...

A 54-year-old man had a 5-year history of painless bilateral eyelid swelling, proptosis, and diplopia. MRI showed enlargement of extraocular muscles, lacrimal gland, and divisions of the trigeminal nerve (figure 1). Biopsy from the left infraorbital canal demonstrated lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate and fibrosis. Mean number of immunoglobulin G (IgG)41 cells was 155 per high-power field and ratio ...

BACKGROUND Severe facial trauma is often associated with intracerebral injuries. So it seemed to be of interest to study stress propagation from face to neurocranium after a fistlike impact on the facial skull in a finite element analysis. METHODS A finite element model of the human skull without mandible consisting of nearly 740,000 tetrahedrons was built. Fistlike impacts on the infraorbita...

PURPOSE To determine patient-preferred injection sites and frequency for facial volume augmentation with nonanimal stabilized hyaluronic acid (Restylane). METHODS : The authors retrospectively reviewed the records of 145 consecutive patients who received 0.4 ml or 1.0 ml subcutaneous facial injections of Restylane. Location, amount, supplemental anesthetic, injection frequency, follow-up time...

The present study was conducted to ascertain the shape, size, presence of accessory foramina, direction, and the precise position of the infraorbital foramen (IOF) in relation to the inferior orbital margin (IOM), anterior nasal spine (ANS), nasion (Na), maxillary teeth, and supraorbital foramen/notch (SOF/N) in adult skulls in a Sri Lankan population. Fifty-four skulls (42 males and 12 females...

None of the reports of delayed infection mentioned a latent period exceeding 13 months. we report an infection that developed 18 months after implantation of an absorbable plate. A 16-year-old adolescent girl had undergone reduction and fixation with an absorbable plate for Lefort I and zygomaticomaxillary complex fractures 18 months prior at our hospital. In her most recent hospital visit as a...