Hairline lowering or advancement, also known as forehead reduction, is a procedure that has been adapted and honed from scalp reduction and flap techniques. Although the high hairline can be found in both men and women of all races and ethnicities due to various diagnoses, hairline advancement is best suited for individuals, typically women, with a lifelong history of a high hairline and no familial or personal history of progressive hair loss. It is a procedure that is both effective and efficient in lowering the congenitally high hairline with very high patient satisfaction.
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Head Neck
December 2024
Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea.
Background: This study evaluates the outcomes of intracapsular enucleation using the retroauricular hairline incision (RAHI) approach for treating cervical vagal schwannomas.
Methods: A longitudinal study was conducted on patients with cervical vagal schwannomas. Eleven patients who underwent RAHI-based enucleation were included.
Eur J Med Genet
December 2024
Center for Medical Genetics, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address:
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay represents a biologic clearing system against aberrant mRNAs harboring nonsense and frameshift mutations and depends on three factors, UPF1, UPF2, and UPF3 (UPF3A, UPF3B). While germline pathogenic variants of UPF3B and UPF2 are known to be associated with neurodevelopmental disorders, germline variants in UPF1 have not been reported, until date, as being associated with any human disorders. Herein, we report two unrelated patients with de novo UPF1 variants.
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July 2024
Cardiology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. E-mail: Tel. +2348067747121.
Background: Cardiac disorders are found in about half of cases of Noonan syndrome (NS). The most common congenital heart diseases in this syndrome include pulmonary valvular stenosis obstructive or nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (17%). Biventricular hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is very rare in this condition.
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October 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Hubei Key Laboratory of Pediatric Genetic Metabolic and Endocrine Rare Diseases, Wuhan 430030, China.
To investigate the clinical characteristics and management status of children with Turner syndrome (TS) in China. As a cross-sectional study, 1 089 TS patients were included in the database of the National Collaborative Alliance for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Turner Syndrome from August 2019 to November 2023. Clinical characteristics (growth development, sexual development, organ anomalies, etc.
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July 2024
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Portsmouth, VA.
Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is an uncommon soft-tissue sarcoma with primary incidence of 4.1 per million person-years and accounts for 0.1% of all malignancies.
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