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Cartilage*

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Fingers* ; Toes*

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Ear*

In combined techniques of a buried suture and an incision method, the eyes are opened easily with minimal effort, because the strength of the levator palpebrae muscle in the early stage of the eye opening process is firstly transmitted to the tarsal plate. The power of eye opening is efficiently transmitted without diminishing its strength. In addition, postoperative swelling on the lower flap is minimal, without loss of the power of eye opening, which allows for effective correction of ptosis in case of weak levator function. The elevation force of the upper eyelid is mainly initiated from the contraction of the levator palpebrae superioris and transmitted to the levator aponeurosis which is inserted into the anterior surface of the tarsal plate. The classical surgical procedure for bleoharoptosis is accomplished by strengthening the weak levator aponeurosis by means of levator plication, shortening, or Muller tucking procedure. The levator sheath thickens to form the superior transverse ligament of Whitnall and runs continuously inferiorly anterior to the levator aponeurosis and forms the deep layer of the orbital septum. The author has used the levator sheath to reinforce the weak levator aponeurosis effectively in cases of all ptotic eyelids. The elevation effect of the levator sheath plication is more than 1mm of the eyelid level in average and it is same effect to more than 3-4mm plication of the levator aponeurosis.
Blepharoplasty ; Blepharoptosis ; Contracts ; Eye ; Eyelids ; Ligaments ; Muscles ; Orbit ; Sutures

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Transplants*

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Dinoprost* ; Flurbiprofen* ; Gabexate* ; Prednisolone* ; Thromboxane B2*

Intracranial angiolipoma is extremely rare. We report the radiologic findings of angiolipoma in the rightmiddle cranial fossa, extending medially into the suprasellar and cavernous sinus region, in a 63-year-old woman.The lesion was a relatively well marginated extra-axial tumor that showed low density on precontrast CT and markedenhancement after contrast infusion. MR imaging showed heterogeneous low signal on T1W1 mixed with hyperintensefoci on T2W1, and marked enhancement after gadolinium infusion. On cerebral angiography, displacement of the rightinternal carotid artery by the tumor was seen. On an arteriogram of the right external carotid artery, the massshowed persistent capillary blush.
Angiolipoma* ; Capillaries ; Carotid Arteries ; Carotid Artery, External ; Cavernous Sinus ; Cerebral Angiography ; Gadolinium ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Middle Aged

BACKGROUND: Using c-fos expression one of the immediate early gene, as a marker of altered neuronal response, we investigated the effect of superior cervical ganglion block (SCGB) exhibiting the same effect of SGB of human on the activity of several brain regions which are considered as located on autonomic neural pathway and neuroendocrine axis in rat. METHOD: The 48 Sprague-Dawley strain rats were divided into 4 groups, as saline/stress (control) group, SCGB/stress (tested) group, saline group, SCGB group. Superior cervical ganglion block was conducted in the SCGB/stress group and SCGB group while saline/stress and saline group were sham operated. After then restraint stress was imposed on the animals of SCGB/stress group and saline/stress group. And 2 hour after injection (saline, SCGB group) or restraint stress (saline/stress, SCGB/stress group), c-fos protein (Fos) was localized by immunocytochemistry. RESULTS: Much stronger Fos immunoreactivity was induced in the several brain region of control group rats compared to other three groups and the numbers of Fos positive cell count of tested group were significantly decreased in paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus (p<0.01), A5 (p<0.01), raphe pallidus (p<0.05), nucleus tractus solitaius (p<0.01) compared to control group. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrate that superior cervical ganglion block attenuates stress induced neuronal activities of paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus, A5, raphe pallidus, nucleus tractus solitarius.
Animals ; Axis, Cervical Vertebra ; Brain* ; Cell Count ; Genes, vif ; Humans ; Immunohistochemistry ; Neural Pathways ; Neurons ; Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus ; Rats* ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Solitary Nucleus ; Superior Cervical Ganglion*

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Fibronectins* ; Wound Healing* ; Wounds and Injuries*