Granular cell tumors are uncommon benign masses. They occur rarely and are usually solitary, nontender lesions, with a tendency to occur in the head and neck region and a predilection for the tongue. A malignant variant is even less common.
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August 2023
Background: In the public's mind, rhytidectomy, better known as a facelift procedure, is the technique most closely associated with plastic surgery. When done correctly, it yields highly satisfactory results. The aim of our study was to retrospectively review results of our patients whose procedures were performed using the superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS) plication technique.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Human facial analysis can be considered both an art and a science, and is used extensively to measure soft tissue proportions. Remarkable changes exist in anthropometric measures due to changes over centuries of geographical, genetic, and environmental factors, as well as waves of migration causing facial proportions to vary among the different ethnic groups. The purpose of this study was to establish facial soft tissue norms for the Egyptian female population between the ages of 18 and 50, as well as several age-related changes in facial measurements that are described fairly scarcely in the literature.
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February 2022
Since its first emergence, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) took the world by surprise, causing more than two million deaths and 100 million infections to date. The virus's most prevalent clinical symptoms have become well known, yet the rarer symptoms, on the other hand, need to be more widely recognized. Various studies have reflected the possibilities of potential skin lesions being the presenting signs of COVID-19 infection.
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October 2021
Background: One of the faced difficulties of nasal tip surgery is progressive loss of nasal tip projection and rotation postoperatively. Nasal base stabilization by septal extension grafts has shown to improve this loss over time. The aim of this study was to demonstrate that a modified septal extension graft can provide the required tip rotation/derotation by changing the angle of the graft's insertion.
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