OBJECTIVE To assess the safety and efficacy of topical 0.1% tacrolimus vs 0.05% clobetasol propionate. DESIGN Randomized double-blind trial. SETTING Department of Dermatology, Hospital Central Dr Ignacio Morones Prieto, San Luis Potosí, México. PARTICIPANTS From 20 children with vitiligo, 2 symmetrical lesions of about the same size and evolution time were selected. They were devoid of an...

Introduction: Necrobiosis Lipoidica (NL) had no adequate treatment. Some case has been treated by different vascular lasers. Third generation pulsed dye lasers with a wavelength of 595 nm has been attempted. Their selectively destroys shallower ectatic blood vessels. Material and Methods: We used a 595 nm, Dermobeam 2000 ® laser (manufactured by Deka© MELA Calenzano, Italy), with a dynamic skin...

Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia, (HHT) or Rendu-Osler-Weber disease is a genetic autosomal dominant disorder that is characterised by telangiectasias, (small vascular malformations), in mucocutaneous tissues and arterial venous malformations, (AVMs), in various internal organs. Although HHT is relatively common in whites, the disorder has been reported to be rare in people of black Afric...

the goal of facial animation is to synthesize realistic facial animated images using computer graphics. because of its capability in creating facial animated images using a few amount of information, facial animation using feature vectors was extensively studied in recent years. in general, this method is considered as one of the performance-driven facial animation base methods. in this regard,...

Automatic analysis of human facial expressions is one of the challenging problems in machine vision systems. It has many applications in human-computer interactions such as, social signal processing, social robots, deceit detection, interactive video and behavior monitoring. In this paper, we develop a new method for automatic facial expression recognition based on facial muscle anatomy and hum...

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...

Background and Objectives: Photoaging ?1 is clinically characterized by irregular pigmentation (freckling, lentigines, persistent hyperpigmentation), dryness/roughness, telangiectasia, wrinkling, elastosis, and inelasticity. Currently available medical literature documents using intense pulsed light (IPL) 3 to 5 times to achieve satisfactory improvement. Study Design/Materials and Methods: Twen...