by H. Michael Baddour | Aug 23, 2019 | Case Discussions
9 month old Hispanic male born with congenital Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma of the left face/neck, Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon and reportedly complete left facial paralysis. He is currently on sirolimus and doing well with response in the tumor size. His first...
by Tessa Hadlock | Jul 19, 2019 | Case Discussions
I performed a routine thin-profile platinum eyelid weight on a gentleman who has had persistent, fluctuating watery edema since then. No erythema, itching, or other symptoms. Looks like allergy but I have only seen this twice in about 1000 eyelid weights. Has anyone...
by Grigoriy Mashkevich | Jul 15, 2019 | Case Discussions
59 yo, 6 mo s/p R lateral temporal bone resection / parotidectomy / neck dissection for invasive SCCA of the ear canal, followed by chemo / RT. Chorda tympani was noted to be grossly involved by the tumor and resected. The facial nerve was decompressed – patient...
by Koen Ingels | Jul 12, 2019 | Case Discussions
36 year old female healthy patient, with facial paralysis on the left side since 16 months because of Ramsay-Hunt infection. There is hardly any recovery with few synkinesis (eye and corner of mouth). In the rest situation there is fair symmetry (Figure 1), but she...
by Ashley Eikenberry | Jul 8, 2019 | Case Discussions
I recently saw a 7 year old girl who has had recurrent bouts of Bell Palsy since the age of two; both parents have had Bell Palsy in the past. She has had 5 episodes over 5 years with the parents acting swiftly to seek treatment. All episodes have settled with steroid...
by Ashley Eikenberry | May 30, 2019 | Case Discussions
73 year old male with mucoepidermoid carcinoma invading left facial nerve. Mild pre-operative facial weakness. Resection, clean proximal margin at stylomastoid foramen, clean distal margins at upper and lower divisions. Cable grafted with tension and suboptimal...
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