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Publications and source records attributed to P J Ameerally.
A 14-year-old boy had a severe blow to the right orbit, which caused a blow-out fracture of the orbital floor and damage to the inferior rectus with resultant diplopia. After two operations his vision is still not perfect.
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Synovial sarcoma is a rare soft tissue tumour of uncertain histogenesis and intraorally they occur mainly in young adults. We present a case of synovial sarcoma of the hard palate in a 68-year-old woman. To our knowledge, there is no previously reported instance of this tumour at this site.
The main aims of mandibular reconstruction are to reproduce the three dimensional position of the patients' mandible with the condyles in the glenoid fossae. We describe a simple technique using an external fixator to stabilise the proximal mandibular segments during resection to aid reconstruction.