Complications with Hair Transplantation.

Most complications associated with hair transplant surgery are usually preventable and most often arise as a consequence of poor planning or faulty surgical technique. Patients should be evaluated for having realistic goals and a pattern that is amenable to aesthetic restoration. A good treatment plan must consider the potential for future hair loss.

Glomus faciale tumors: A report of 3 cases and literature review.

Our objectives in reporting this case series are to familiarize readers with the rare occurrence of paragangliomas originating along the facial nerve and to provide a literature review. We describe 3 such cases that occurred at our tertiary care academic medical center. Two women and 1 man presented with a tumor adjacent to the vertical segment of the facial nerve.

Revision Functional Surgery: Salvaging Function.

Reduction rhinoplasty techniques include maneuvers that weaken the nasal osseocartilaginous framework. The structurally compromised anatomy remaining after reductive surgery may be left with inadequate strength to withstand postoperative contractile forces. Significant aesthetic and functional deformities requiring revision rhinoplasty may develop.

Facial reanimation according to the postresection defect during lateral skull base surgery.

The vast majority of benign tumors of the cerebellopontine angle, temporal bone, and parotid gland can be successfully resected without permanent injury to the facial nerve. Malignant tumors or recurrent disease may require facial nerve sacrifice, especially if preoperative facial paresis is present. This article will present case examples of the various methods to reconstruct facial animation after lateral skull base resections that require sacrifice of cranial nerve VII, and the associated mimetic facial musculature.

The economic impact of revision otologic surgery.

Revision otologic surgery places a significant economic burden on patients and the healthcare system. We conducted a retrospective chart analysis to estimate the economic impact of revision canal-wall-down (CWD) mastoidectomy. We reviewed the medical records of all 189 adults who had undergone CWD mastoidectomy performed by the senior author between June 2006 and August 2011 at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill.

Immediate postoperative imaging after uncomplicated endoscopic approach to the anterior skull base: is it necessary?

Background: Postoperative imaging is frequently performed to assess for intracranial complications following anterior skull base (ASB) surgery. However, there is little data to suggest that radiologic studies change the management of complications. In this study, the utility of postoperative imaging within 72 hours after uncomplicated ASB surgery was examined.