A contemporary assessment of facial aesthetic preferences.

Objectives: To compare and characterize the ideal nasolabial angle, nasal tip width, and location of the eyebrow apex for Asian and white women.

Methods: From approximately January 1, 2005, to June 30, 2005, we photographed the faces of 2 Asian women and 2 white women of differing ages. Each model's image was modified to create different eyebrow shapes, unique nasolabial angles, and varying nasal tip widths.

Complications and the time to repair of mandible fractures.

Objective: Treatment delays in the operative management of mandible fractures are often unavoidable. We were interested in determining whether delays increased the incidence of complications in these patients.

Study Design And Setting: A retrospective chart review was performed on all patients who presented to the San Francisco General Hospital with an operative mandible fracture in 2002.

Coccidioidomycosis causing massive cervical lymphadenopathy.

Coccidioidomycosis involving the head and neck is uncommon. We present a case of a patient with disseminated coccidioidomycosis and massive submandibular cystic lymphadenopathy unresponsive to systemic antifungal treatment. It is our impression that significant clinical improvement resulted from concomitant needle aspiration of the cystic nodes to decrease fungal load and modification of systemic medication.

The importance of etiology on the clinical course of neck abscesses.

Objective: Formation of neck abscesses from injecting illicit drugs continues to be a common problem in the United States. We sought to determine whether neck abscesses resulting from direct inoculation differ in their clinical course and severity from those that arise from direct spread through inflamed tissue, as in pharyngitis or odontogenic infections.

Study Design And Setting: Patients were separated based on the cause of their neck abscess into either an injection drug use group or a noninjection drug use group.