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L M Redondo González

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PubMed2002

[A study of spontaneous regeneration of defected short nerve gaps in rats].

Nerve trunk gaps can be repaired with different anastomosis methods. We investigate if spontaneous regeneration can yield results similar to artificial repair, and have compared the degree of nerve regeneration in nerve defects of extratemporal facial nerve trunk in Wistar rats. The lesions measured 4 millimeters long. Three groups were studied: 0. Normal nerve (control). 1. No treatment (therapeutic abstention). 2. Autografts. The considered parameters were: clinical outcome (degree of postoperative facial function, aspect of the defectuous region, nerve conduction latency, and number of axons that managed to penetrate the defect as well as their morphometric characteristics (nerve area). Our conclusion is that in this model placement of autografts yielded significantly better results in all the parameters studied, in spite of the scant defect length. These results likewise allow us to use this model to compare repair by means of different graft types.

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PubMed1998

[Gold weights for the treatment of lagophthalmos caused by facial paralysis. Our experience and review of the literature].

Paralysis of the orbicularis oculi muscle in patients with facial palsy can originate serious functional and esthetic problems. The implantation of a gold weight in the upper eyelid is one of the many surgical techniques that have been described for the correction of lagophthalmos in these patients. In this article we review the literature and present our experience with gold weight implantation for eyelid reanimation in patients with facial palsy. This procedure is technically simple to perform, produces good functional and cosmetic results, has a relatively low complication rate and is reversible should facial function return.

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PubMed1997

Oral sarcoidosis with tongue involvement.

A case of oral sarcoidosis involving the tongue and buccal region is reported in a 56-year-old woman. Intraoral presentations of sarcoidosis are uncommon, and sarcoidosis of the tongue is particularly rare. In this case the tongue lesion was asymptomatic, and unusual clinical behavior. In this article, we review the clinical manifestations, diagnostic procedures, differential diagnosis and treatments of oral sarcoidosis.

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[Tularemia in the differential diagnosis of cervical lymph node enlargement. An outbreak of tularemia in Castilla-León, Spain].

The presence of enlarged cervical lymph nodes is a diagnostic challenge in disease of the head and neck. Lymph node enlargement may be secondary to local or general infectious disease, to non-infectious systemic disease, or to lymphatic metastasis of tumoral processes. Among the many infectious processes that originate cervical lymph nodes is tularemia. This disease is uncommon in Spain, but was unusually frequent in Castilla-León in the last months of 1997, with 136 cases diagnosed in our hospital, 13 accompanied by lymph node enlargement of the head and neck. This article shows that tularemia should be considered in the differential diagnosis of cervical lymph node enlargement in our region.

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