Minimal incision facelift.

Many procedures have been developed in an attempt to improve facial ptosis. These have ranged from subcutaneous dissections with skin excision to deeper dissections focused on supporting the superficial musculoaponeurotic system and even the periosteal layer. These deeper dissections, although theoretically giving better and longer lasting results, also carry an increased risk of complications.

Granular cell tumor of the trachea in pregnancy: a case report and review of literature.

Objectives/hypothesis: The objectives were to present a case report of a woman with recurrent disease during consecutive pregnancies and to discuss the diagnosis and management of granular cell tracheal tumors, with particular attention to pregnancy and hyperestrogenic states.

Study Design: Case report and literature review.

Methods: A Medline search and comprehensive review of literature to assess all cases of granular cell tumors of the trachea were compared and collected, with particular attention to individual cases of pregnancy or cases related to the hyperestrogenic state.

Laser resurfacing of silicone-injected skin: the "silicone flash" revisited.

Objective: To determine whether prior silicone injection increases the risks associated with carbon dioxide laser resurfacing.

Design: Laboratory determination of the effect of laser energy on liquid silicone; histologic evaluation of silicone-injected skin after lasing; and histologic demonstration of silicone deposits in all layers of dermis years after injection of silicone as filler fluid.

Setting: Tertiary care medical center.

The malignant "cold" nodule of the thyroid.

From 1958 to 1976, 910 patients with cold nodules of the thyroid underwent thyroid surgery (714 females, 196 males). Thyroid carcinoma was present in 202 patients (22.2 per cent) (149 females, 20.