Nasotracheal intubation in patients with facial fractures.
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Publications and source records attributed to A A Taher.
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A case is reported of traumatic external carotid artery aneurysm causing facial paralysis. The aneurysm was successfully treated surgically.
128 cases of mandibular reconstruction for defects due to gunshot injuries were treated by various types of autogenous iliac crest bone grafts during a period of 4 years and six months. The survival rate of these grafts was 98.43 per cent.
In a 3 year period 95 patients with sialolithiasis were studied, giving an annual incidence of 7.3 per 1000 admissions. The male to female ratio was 2.5:1. Salivary gland stones comprised 73.68 per cent (N = 70 patients). Chemical analysis of calculi taken from 88 patients, showed that 89.77 per cent (N = 79 patients) were with phosphate salts stones, 7.98 per cent (N = 7 patients) were with oxalate salts, and 2.27 per cent (N = 2 patients) were with urate salts. Salivary gland infection was present in 91.57 per cent (N = 87 patients) of whom 75.86 per cent (N = 66 patients) and 24.14 per cent (N = 21 patients) were females. A high ambient temperature and dehydration with poor oral hygiene are probable causative factors.
Although pulmonary tuberculosis is not uncommon in Iran, involvement of salivary glands, especially the parotid is rare. A case is reported which was treated by surgery and chemotherapy.
A 1.5 year old Kuwaiti child male presented with a massive bilateral ulcerative lesion of palate and gingiva with massive submandibular lymphadenopathy which were proven histologically to be due to an eosinophilic granuloma. Bone survey was normal. The patient was treated by chemotherapy and irradiation locally with dramatic response and no relapse occurred in more than 18 months of follow up.
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The results of a retrospective study of the incidence and causes of 523 facial fractures seen in one hospital in Kuwait, sustained as a result of road traffic accidents alone, over a period of 38 months are presented.
We report an outbreak of acute diarrhoea due to Aeromonas sobria in Benghazi which occurred during a 1-month period in 1997. Of 69 patients admitted with acute gastroenteritis, 28 were positive for A. sobria based on the production of gas from glucose, the production of acetoin, hydrogen sulfide and lysine decarboxylase and on aesculin hydrolysis and fermentation of arabinose and salicin. The strains were sensitive to chloramphenicol, co-trimoxazole, tetracycline and gentamicin but resistant to ampicillin and carbenicillin. We were unable to trace the source of the infection.