Progressive hemifacial atrophy also known as Parry-Romberg syndrome is an acquired, slowly progressive disorder, occurring more in women, primarily affecting one side of the face, mainly characterized by unilateral atrophy, and loss of skin and subcutaneous tissues of face, muscles, and bones. Ocular and neurologic involvements are common. The possible etiology is unclear without any known cure...

Fig. 1 : Parry Romberg syndrome patient showing the deviation of nose, atrophy and deviation of tongue and atrophy of one side of the face. Fig. 2 : Parry Romberg patient showing scarring alopecia of the scalp. A 25 year old female presented with progressive atrophy of the left side of the face for the past 15 years. Lesions started on the scalp and forehead and extended to the entire half of t...

*Resident, **DnB, MD, Internal Medicine, ***Consultant Physician, CSI Kalyani Multispeciality Hospital no 15 Dr Radhakrishnan Salai, Chennai -600004; ***Former Professor and Head Department of Medicine, Madras Medical College, Head of Dept of Medicine, CSI Kalyani Multispeciality Hospital no 15, Dr Radhakrishnan Salai, Chennai -600004 Received: 20.04.2010; Revised: 01.07.2010; Accepted: 02.07.2...

Archaic Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BC exhibits visual narrative phenomena that are very similar to the verbal narrative patterns of traditional, orally composed poetry: in the poetry these are the familiar formulaic phrases and themes analyzed by Milman Parry and the ensuing train of oral theorists; in the art they take the form of repetitious iconography and recurrent composit...

The veneration in which the name of Parry has long been held by us, was not diminished by the perusal of his late work, the Elements of Pathology ; and therefore we took up the present volume with anticipations of pleasure and profit. The nature of the subject, however, though at all times interesting, was so obscure, and hitherto unsatisfactorily explained, that we did not make up our minds fo...