Disfigurement is more common than is generally realised. It can be consequence of trauma, cancer, radiotherapy, facial paralysis, birthmarks, vascular malformations, neurofibromatosis, cleft lip/palate and other craniofacial conditions. Facial disfigurement can be physically, emotionally, and socially distressing, and some people whose faces have been disfigured can suffer a so-called “social d...

We report the successful allotransplantation of cryopreserved parathyroid tissue to reverse hypocalcemia in a kidney transplant recipient. A 36-year-old male received a second deceased donor kidney transplant, and 6 weeks later developed severe bilateral leg numbness and weakness, inability to walk, acute pain in the left knee and wrist tetany. His total calcium was 2.6 mg/dL and parathormone l...