Circular skin defects are common after excision. Traditional closure requires removal of some healthy skin to make a fusiform elliptical defect and then close the defect directly. This closure may distort the tissue around the eyebrow, making the eyebrows asymmetrical. Furthermore, although a purse-string suture can be used to provide closure for a circular skin defect around the eyebrows, this...

Automatic estimation of facial features is necessary for model–based coding of videophone sequences at very low bit rates. In this contribution, algorithms for the estimation of eye, eyebrow and nose features are presented. For estimation of eye features, deformable template matching with a simplified cost function is used. For the estimation of eyebrow features, a segmentation algorithm is pro...

Owing to the endoscopic approach to brow lifting, the renovated awareness of the frontalis-galea-occipitalis (FGO) muscle unit concept has modified the understanding of eyebrow positioning and elevation. It is now felt that this muscle unit elevates the brow and that its surgical freeing from the inferior-anterior insertion, associated with freeing of the FGO unit from its skull attachments, re...

Civil Surgeon, Kliundwah, Central Provinces. As the following operation presents, I think, some 'new features, the details may not prove uninteresting. Gunnia, a Brahmin female, aged 25, was brought by the Police to the dispensary, her husband having bitten off her nose in a jealous fit. I saw her on the third morning after the injury, and found that both ala) of the nose were bitten off almost...

In the aging face, the lateral third of the brow ages first and ages most. Aesthetically, eyebrow shape is more significant than height and eyebrow shape is highly dependent on the level of the lateral brow complex. Surgical attempts to elevate the brow complex are usually successful medially, but often fail laterally. The "modified lateral brow lift" is a hybrid technique, incorporating featur...

facial reconstruction is one of the most challenging problems faced by a reconstructive surgeon. we present a case of complex facial reconstruction with a composite trauma to the nose resulting in near total loss of skin and lining along with complete loss of left eyebrow with exposed frontal bone and partial loss of the left eyelid. we combined a temporoparietal fascial flap for reconstruction...

Figure 1. Hematoxylin and eosin stain demonstrates a well-circumscribed dermal nodule (arrow) composed of mixed solid cellular proliferation including microcysts, ducts, and areas of myxoid stroma.

Speech prosody has traditionally been analyzed in terms of acoustic features. Although visual features have been shown to enhance linguistic processing, the conventional view is that facial and body gesture information in oral (non-signed) languages tends to be redundant and has the role of helping the hearer recover the meaning of an utterance. Though prosodic information in face-to-face commu...