BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We report a case of facial diplegia complicating a bilateral internal carotid artery dissection. CASE DESCRIPTION A 49-year-old patient presented with unilateral headache and oculosympathetic paresis. Cerebral angiography revealed a bilateral internal carotid artery dissection. A few days later, the patient developed a facial diplegia that regressed after arterial recan...

Aneurysms of the facial vasculature have been reported since the mid-seventeenth century from a variety of accidental, violent, and surgical injuries. Of the 386 cases of facial aneurysm reported in the world literature, 327 involve the superficial temporal artery. The nomenclature is somewhat confusing, because pseudoaneurysms are often referred to as simply "aneurysms" in the literature. Give...

A 47 year old man suffered an acute left hemiparesis after several weeks of right-sided facial pain. Right carotid angiography revealed internal carotid artery thrombosis and severe occlusion of external carotid branches supplying facial structures. An ischaemic aetiology for the facial pain is suggested.

OBJECTIVE To investigate where facial recognition is located anatomically and to establish whether there is a graded transition from unimpaired recognition of faces to complete prosopagnosia after infarctions in the territory of the middle cerebral artery. METHODS A computerised morphing program was developed which shows 30 frames gradually changing from portrait photographs of unfamiliar per...

Received 4 March 1996 and in revised form 19 September 1996 Accepted 30 October 1996 Abstract Objective-To investigate where facial recognition is located anatomically and to establish whether there is a graded transition from unimpaired recognition offaces to complete prosopagnosia after infarctions in the territory of the middle cerebral artery. Methods-A computerised morphing program was dev...

Traumatic intractable epistaxis following fractures of the facial and base of skull rarely may be life-threatening. Common sites of injury are the internal carotid and maxillary artery. When conventional methods of arresting haemorrhage fail, the choices are then an open arterial ligation or superselective embolisation. This paper presents a patient with life-threatening epistaxis from a Le For...

In East Asia, a square face is considered unattractive, and mandibular contouring surgery is commonly used to give a smooth contour to the lower jaw. Mandibular contouring surgery occasionally involves not only osteotomy of the mandibular angle but also resection of the masseter muscle via an intraoral approach. This type of mandibular contouring surgery poses a risk of injury to the premassete...

A 61-year-old woman suffered transient mydriasis and prolonged facial nerve palsy after intracisternal papaverine application subsequent to elective clipping of an unruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysm. The mydriasis resolved within 90 minutes, but the facial nerve dysfunction persisted for 2 months before complete recovery. Prolonged irrigation of the cisterns may have washed the papaveri...

To identify the anatomical variations of main branches external carotid artery (lingual, facial, occipital, ascending pharyngeal and sternocleidomastoid), giving information about calibers origins with aim creating a new classification useful in clinical practice. 193 human embalmed body-donors were dissected. The data collected analyzed using Chi² test. results previous studies reviewed. major...

The aim of this study was to analyze the spectrum of clinical presentations of internal carotid artery dissection. Twenty-two patients with internal carotid artery dissection, mean age 39.02, were evaluated over the past ten years. Magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance angiography were used to establish the diagnosis. Facial and neck pain and Horner's syndrome were the only presenti...