We read this article with great interest regarding the frequency of occurrence in different nerve branches in trigeminal neuralgia (1). However, the paper raises some important issues. The authors showed that more patients presented with right than left neuralgia (ratio: 1.5/1), attributing this lateralization of neuralgia to a narrower foramen ovale and foramen rotundum on the right side. This...

One year after resection of a parotid neoplasm, a 44-year-old man developed sweating over the left side of the face while eating (see video). He had to continuously dab his face with a cloth during a meal. He has been treated successfully with botulinum toxin. Gustatory sweating, known as Frey syndrome,1 results from misdirected regeneration of parasympathetic fibers normally innervating saliva...

The skin is one of the target organs that are most often involved in food hypersensitivity reactions. Clinical manifestations of food hypersensitivity in the skin range from symptoms of atopic dermatitis, urticaria, angioedema to dermatitis herpetiformis, and a masquerader of food allergy, the Frey’s syndrome. All present with typical skin manifestations of their foodallergic reactions. Three c...

During a study of the serum levels of penicillin necessary for the prophylaxis of rheumatic fever in children (Carron, Maillard, and Pellerat, 1961) we made some observations which could have practical importance in the treatment of syphilis. We observed certain variations in the serum levels after the administration of benzathine penicillin some of which appeared to be rather paradoxical. In g...

Topographic analyses of retinal ganglion cell density are very useful in providing information about the visual ecology of a species by identifying areas of acute vision within the visual field (i.e. areas of high cell density). In this study, we investigated the neural cell distribution in the ganglion cell layer of a range of lanternfish species belonging to 10 genera. Analyses were performed...