BACKGROUND Carotid blowout syndrome with pseudoaneurysm, a rapidly progressive pathology, may present emergently with massive oral hemorrhage. Use of an endograft prosthesis offers a treatment strategy with salvation of the carotid artery. CASE HISTORY A 55 year old man with advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck presented with recurrent transoral hemorrhage, requiring endovasc...

OBJECTIVE To ask experts in the field to evaluate a surgeon's experience with a retroseptal transconjunctival approach for the repair of the orbital floor damaged by blowout fracture that the surgeon encountered in 12 East-Asian patients. METHODS Patients were identified from a database, and a retrospective case note review was conducted. A total of 12 conjunctival procedures were conducted f...

Recent works have demonstrated that a blowout bifurcation can lead to symmetry breaking in chaotic systems with a simple kind of symmetry. That is, as a system parameter changes, when a chaotic attractor lying in some invariant subspace becomes unstable with respect to perturbations transverse to the invariant subspace, a symmetry-broken attractor can be born. As the parameter varies further, a...

Abstract We analyze the formation mechanism of three homologous broad coronal mass ejections (CMEs) resulting from a series solar blowout-eruption flares with successively increasing intensities (M2.0, M2.6, and X1.0). The originated NOAA Active Region 12017 during 2014 March 28–29 within an interval ≈24 hr. Coronal magnetic field modeling based on nonlinear force-free extrapolation helps to id...

BACKGROUND Facial hypoesthesia is one of the most troublesome complaints in the management of facial bone fractures. However, there is a lack of literature on facial sensory recovery after facial trauma. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the facial sensory recovery period for facial bone fractures using Neurometer. METHODS Sixty-three patients who underwent open reduction of zygomatic...

The indications for surgical repair of the orbital blowout fracture are controversial. One reason may be case variation among fracture types. We therefore focused on linear-type blowout fractures in this study. The study included 22 consecutive patients with linear-type floor fractures. Demographics, clinical and computed tomographic (CT) findings, surgical timing, postoperative course, and out...

BACKGROUND Blowout fracture is one of the most common facial fractures, and patients usually present with accompanying ocular complications. Many studies have looked into the frequency of persistent ocular symptoms, but there is no study on assault patients and related ocular symptoms. We evaluated the incidence of residual ocular symptoms in blow-out fractures between assaulted and non-assault...

A blowout cardiac rupture is sudden and dramatic. The most appropriate surgical repair remains controversial. We report our experience with blowout rupture treated by sutureless technique. The two cases were males aged 58 and 79 years respectively. Echocardiography confirmed the diagnosis of cardiac rupture. Resuscitation was continued in the operating suite, and the myocardial tear and necroti...