Starobinska E, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-221004 Description A 53-year-old female presented with a 2-week history of shortness of breath, cough and fever. Over the past 6 months, she reported painful tongue ulcers and pain in her nose, accompanied with nasal crusting and yellowish discharge. She had a history of pulmonary coccidioidomycosis, diagnosed 10 years ago, and she w...

A Hanwoo cow with a delayed gestation and abdominal distension was delivered following PGF2α injection. There excessive amniotic fluid, male calf but died immediately. The had no eyes nose, cleft palate on the upper jaw. Gross appearance computed tomography image showed that teeth were spread out both sides due to in jaw, lower jaw positioned upward. other brain parts except cerebellum. These f...

Last year at the Metropolitan Opera House, I enjoyed the opera The Nose, directed by William Kentridge. In the opera, a man named Major Kovalyov woke up one morning and found that his nose had gone missing in the night. The nose had developed a life of its own (Fig. 1). Although a police officer returned the nose to Kovalyov, a doctor was unable to reattach the nose. On 13th day after losing hi...

Learning Objectives: After studying this article, the participant should be able to: 1. Discuss advantages and disadvantages of the available classification systems for cleft lip deformities. 2. Discuss, in detail, the normal anatomic features of the orbicularis oris muscle and the aberrant features seen in unilateral cleft lip deformities. 3. Define the anatomic features of the unilateral clef...

Over a 6-month period a record was kept of all patients presenting to the accident and emergency (A&E) department with nasal injuries. The results of the nasal radiographs were analysed to gauge their benefit. It was found that there was poor correlation between the radiological findings and the presence of external deformity, the latter determining the decision to carry out treatment. Routine ...