The silent sinus syndrome (SSS) involves painless facial asymmetry and enophthalmos, which is the result of chronic maxillary sinus atelectasis. In most cases, it is diagnosed clinically, however, using the characteristic imaging features including maxillary sinus outlet obstruction, sinus opacification, and sinus volume loss caused by inward retraction of the sinus walls. Obstruction of the ma...

This article reviews symptoms and signs of aberrant axon connectivity in humans, and summarizes major human genetic disorders that result, or have been proposed to result, from defective axon guidance. These include corpus callosum agenesis, L1 syndrome, Joubert syndrome and related disorders, horizontal gaze palsy with progressive scoliosis, Kallmann syndrome, albinism, congenital fibrosis of ...

Retraction This article [1] has been retracted by the Editor. Although the patient's legal guardian originally gave consent for publication of the case and accompanying images, we were informed that they withdrew this consent shortly after publication. The article is no longer available online in order to protect patient confidentiality. Novel two-stage surgical treatment for Cantrell syndrome ...

The twiddler syndrome results in retraction and coiling of the lead in the pacemaker pocket with subsequent pacemaker malfunction. If the lead׳s parameters are not affected, then the problem can be corrected by lead repositioning. We describe the first reported case of a dramatic pacemaker lead coiling with a double level of lead compromise, with one of them being intra-cardiac. This condition ...

objective: the gingival crevicular fluid (gcf) is an inflammatory exudate found in the gingival sulcus. the forces exerted during orthodontic treatment cause distortion of the periodontal ligament (pdl) extra-cellular matrix, resulting in some biological features that can lead to modification of both gcf volume and its components. the present study investigated the effect of orthodontic tooth m...

Background: Neonates are at high risk for health problems. Without proper treatment, those problems might lead to either disability or death. Congenital heart disease causes respiratory distress syndrome (breathing syndrome), with symptoms of dyspnea, cyanosis, and arrest due pathological changes in the that disrupt blood flow cycle throughout body. This study aimed discover nursing care Baby M...

PURPOSE To describe a series of patients with lower eyelid epiblepharon associated with lower eyelid retraction. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients who underwent surgery for lower eyelid retraction, epiblepharon, or thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) between October 1999 and March 2007. Patients with both lower eyelid retraction and epiblepharon on preope...

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