Hairline Lowering Surgery With Bone Tunneling Suture Fixation: Effectiveness and Safety in 91 Patients.

Background: People with a wide forehead often look older. Hairline lowering surgery is a good treatment option, which is generally performed utilizing Endotine.

Objectives: We describe our hairline lowering surgical technique involving bone tunneling without Endotine, a method designed to produce comparable outcomes with fewer side effects.

Genetic Polymorphisms , , and on the VEGF Gene Are Correlated with Extracranial Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis and Ischemic Stroke.

Extracranial internal carotid artery (ECICA) stenosis is a modifiable risk factor of ischemic stroke. VEGF plays a crucial role in the maintenance of endothelial integrity and physiological function. This study was designed to assess the correlations of VEGF polymorphisms with ECICA stenosis in ischemic stroke and to explore the relationships between these polymorphisms and different biochemical parameters.

To do or not to do; dilemma of intra-arterial revascularization in acute ischemic stroke.

Background: There has still been lack of evidence for definite imaging criteria of intra-arterial revascularization (IAR). Therefore, IAR selection is left largely to individual clinicians. In this study, we sought to investigate the overall agreement of IAR selection among different stroke clinicians and factors associated with good agreement of IAR selection.

Two different clinical entities of small vessel occlusion in TOAST classification.

Background: Small deep infarcts might be classified into 2 types: lacunar and branchatheromatous infarcts. However, since their initial description, small deep infarcts were still regarded as the same category of the Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST) classification, small vessel occlusion (SVO). We hypothesized that the 2 types of small deep infarcts would be distinct clinical entities.

Oromandibular dyskinesia as the initial manifestation of late-onset huntington disease.

Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a triad of choreoathetosis, dementia and dominant inheritance. The cause of HD is an expansion of CAG trinucleotide repeats in the HD gene. Typical age at onset of symptoms is in the 40s, but the disorder can manifest at any time.

Activated platelet-rich plasma improves fat graft survival in nude mice: a pilot study.

Background: Numerous processing methods have been proposed to enhance the survival of fat grafts, but no definitive treatment protocol is available. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) contains a high concentration of platelets with neovascularization properties and has the potential to promote fat graft survival.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of activated PRP on human graft quality and survival.