department with a history of gradual painless swelling over the left side of her face for 4 months. Physical examination revealed asymmetric appearance of the face, with a 120 × 70 mm non-tender, non-mobile, and non-pulsatile prominent soft tissue mass with a smooth contour in the left parotid and periauricular spaces. Neurological examination was unremarkable. On ultrasound examination, a soli...

Hydatid disease, caused by larval stage of parasite echinococcus, is considerable health problem world wide. Hydatid cyst of infratemporal region is extremely rare, even in endemic areas. A 35 year old woman presented with slowly progressive swelling in infratemporal region. At operation the cystic mass was demonstrated and histopathologic examination confirmed the diagnosis of hydatid cyst. A ...

Complication of dental infections might be various and heterogeneous. The most common complications are represented by maxilar celulitis, canine space celulitis, infratemporal space celulitis, temporal celulitis and bacteremia. Among rarest complications we found: sepsis, bacterial endocarditis, mediastinitis, intracranial complications, osteomyelitis, etc. Although dental infections are often ...

The solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) was first described as a mesenchymal tumor of fibroblastic type, present in the pleura. The head and neck area is the third most common site of SFT occurrence. Numb chin syndrome (NCS) is a rare neurological symptom. The current report describes the case of a 39-year-old female patient referred to the present hospital with NCS, which was later observed to be due...

Objective: To determine common presenting symptoms, age, disease extent; and the efficacy of different surgical approaches in the diagnosis and treatment of Angiofibroma of nasopharynx. Design: All prepubertal and adolescent patients presenting with nasal obstruction, recurrent epistaxis, denasal speech, conductive deafness and anaemic look, reporting to our dept for consultancy were evaluated....

Two patients with recurrent parotid gland carcinoma required subtotal petrosectomy and infratemporal fossa type C approach. To achieve en bloc resection, the ascending mandibular ramus and the entire temporomandibular joint, including the adjacent temporal bone, were removed. An original technique for immediate reconstruction of the infratemporal region, including the glenoid fossa and the ramu...

Background: Aneurysmal bone cysts are relatively uncommon in the facial skeleton. These usually affect the mandible but origin from the coronoid process is even rarer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a coronoid process aneurysmal bone cyst presenting as temporal fossa swelling. Case presentation: A 17 year old boy presented with a progressively increasing swelli...