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Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy in a Patient with Lupus Erythematosus

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1994
This is a single case report describing a young woman with progressive facial atrophy that began at age 15. After she underwent commissuroplasty and collagen injection at age 29, her symptoms continued to progress, and she was ultimately shown to have serologic evidence of systemic lupus.
R, Roddi, E, Riggio, P M, Gilbert, J M, Vaandrager, J C, van der Meulen   +4 more
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Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy Associated with Lyme Disease

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1992
A case is described of progressive hemifacial atrophy occurring in a child with Lyme disease. Borrelial infection may have been an etiologic factor in the progressive hemifacial atrophy, which was ultimately treated with an SIEA free-flap transfer.
H S, Stern, L F, Elliott, P H, Beegle
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Supraclavicular Island Fascial Flap in the Treatment of Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2008
Progressive hemifacial atrophy is a rare disorder, affecting almost 0.30 percent of the population, characterized by progressive atrophy of some or all tissues on one side of the face, occasionally extending to other parts of the body.
Giovanni, Di Benedetto, Angelica, Aquinati, Paolo, Balercia, William, Forlini, Aldo, Bertani   +4 more
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Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy (Rombergʼs Disease)

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 1993
Progressive hemifacial atrophy (Romberg's disease) manifests variable involvement of the skin, soft tissue and underlying cranio-facial skeleton. Significant bony deformation has been identified in those patients with early onset disease, the result of factors both intrinsic to the disease process and secondary to the abnormal environment in which the ...
M H, Moore, K S, Wong, T W, Proudman, D J, David   +3 more
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A patient’s experience of progressive hemifacial atrophy

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
Progressive hemifacial atrophy is a rare idiopathic disorder that can have a significant impact on quality of life. In this article, a patient describes his experience of the condition.
Conor Larney, Rosemarie Watson, Dylan Murray, Alan D Irvine   +3 more
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Correction of Enophthalmos in Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy

Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 1996
This case report describes a technique used for correction of enophthalmos secondary to progressive hemifacial atrophy (Parry-Romberg syndrome). The only previous described technique utilized an orbital floor implant, but this method was apparently only partially successful in correcting the conditions, i.e., it did not correct both the enophthalmos ...
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Use of Various Free Flaps in Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 2011
Romberg disease is an uncommon condition manifested by progressive hemifacial atrophy of the skin, soft tissue, and bone. Facial asymmetry with soft tissue deficiency in Romberg disease causes a significant disability affecting the social life and can bring about many psychological problems.The aim of surgical treatment is cosmetic amelioration of the ...
Rongmin, Baek, Chanyeong, Heo, Baek-kyu, Kim   +2 more
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Romberg??s Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy: An Association with Scleral Melting

Cornea, 1991
We report the unusual case of a 43-year-old woman who presented with Romberg's progressive facial hemiatrophy and spontaneous scleral perforation in the ipsilateral eye, for which scleral grafting was performed. Histologic and ultrastructural examination of the scleral specimen revealed a noninflammatory lytic process. The location of the scleral loss,
T, Hoang-Xuan, C S, Foster, F A, Jakobiec, J, Tauber, M, Sainz de la Maza, W, Krebs   +5 more
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[Progress in surgical management of progressive hemifacial atrophy].

Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery, 2015
To summarize recent progress in surgical management of progressive hemifacial atrophy (PHA), to analyse the key features of various methods of treatment, and to define subjects worthy of further researches.The publications concerning the etiology and surgical management of PHA were reviewed, analyzed, and summarized.Surgical management serves as the ...
Yan, Shi, Jianhua, Gao
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Parry-Romberg Syndrome: Progressive hemifacial atrophy

2023
Clinical History: A 10-year-old boy presented with a complaint of facial deformity and crooked teeth, which developed after age six. There was no history of family members with similar complaints and no incidences of trauma or infection.  Physical exam: Facial asymmetry was detected due to the hollowing of the cheek and chin, the malar ...
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