introduction: tessier facial cleft is among the rarest facial clefts reported in literatures and there are many issues arguing about its multidisciplinary repairing techniques. tessier number 4 and 5 are extremely rare facial anomalies. there are few literatures describing these clefts and their surgical modalities. number 5 tessier cleft begins medial to oral commissure in the upper lip and ex...

how to cite this article:  inaloo s, katibeh p. guillain-barre syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve palsy. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter;8(1):69-71. objective this case study is about an 11-year-old girl with bilateral facial weakness, abnormal taste sensation, and deep tendon reflexes of both knees and ankles were absent. however, the muscle power of the lower and upper extremiti...

introduction: we present a retrospective two-center study series and discussion of the current literature to assess the benefits of facial nerve monitoring during parotidectomy. materials and methods: from 2007 to 2012, 128 parotidectomies were performed in 125 patients. of these, 47 procedures were performed without facial nerve monitoring (group 1) and 81 with facial nerve monitoring (group 2...

face expression recognition is useful for designing new interactive devices offering the possibility of new ways for human to interact with computer systems. in this paper we develop a facial expressions analysis and synthesis system. the analysis part of the system is based on the facial features extracted from facial feature points (ffp) in frontal image sequences. selected facial feature poi...

Introduction: Cephalometry is an efficient tool for anthropometric studies. This study sought to assess facial dimensions and types of adults residing in Qazvin (Iran) and Dera Ghazi (DG) Khan (Pakistan). Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a total of 300 ethnic populations of Qazvin and 365 ethnic populations of DG Khan aged between 18-55 years were randomly selected and evaluated. Th...

purpose: to report a case of acute myelogenous leukemia (aml) presenting with periorbital cellulitis and progressing to facial and neck cellulitis. case report: a 17 year old male patient presented with periorbital cellulitis which progressed to the right hemifacial and neck area. he did not respond to regular antibiotic therapy. peripheral blood smear showed leukocytosis with predominance of i...

introduction: cephalometry is an efficient tool for anthropometric studies. this study sought to assess facial dimensions and types of adults residing in qazvin (iran) and dera ghazi (dg) khan (pakistan). methods: in this cross-sectional study, a total of 300 ethnic populations of qazvin and 365 ethnic populations of dg khan aged between 18-55 years were randomly selected and evaluated. the sub...

Facial nerve palsy (FNP) changes facial expression and leads to functional problems in facial movement and negative psychological effect on patients. Fortunately, some of FNP problems recover completely, but some others remain with some sequelae like asymmetry, muscle contracture, synkinesis, and hyperkinesias that need rehabilitation. This article aimed to investigate physiotherapy modalit...