Facial Injuries
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Effective use of electroconvulsive therapy after craniofacial reconstructive surgery.

30 Aug 2009 The present case report describes a 53-year-old male patient with long-standing, refractory major depressive disorder admitted for electroconvulsive therapy. The patient had a history of head trauma and was status-post craniofacial surgery with mesh ... Read more...

'Coping quite well with a few difficult bits': living with disfigurement in early adolescence.

30 Aug 2009 Facial disfigurement affects approximately one in 500 children and young people in the UK. Four mothers and their four children aged 11-13 years who have a facial disfigurement were recruited through the charity Changing Faces, in order to examine ... Read more...

The interplay of perceived social support and posttraumatic psychological distress following orofacial injury.

30 Aug 2009 Social support is believed to mediate psychosocial recovery in vulnerable populations after trauma. In this study, we examine the relationships between perceived social support and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in a cohort of 287 ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Facial Injuries'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Plastic surgeons' tradition in transplantation medicine in light of composite tissue allotransplantation. 30 Oct 2009
• Subcision for lip and perioral scarring cosmesis: case report. 29 Sep 2009
• Effective use of electroconvulsive therapy after craniofacial reconstructive surgery. 30 Aug 2009
• 'Coping quite well with a few difficult bits': living with disfigurement in early adolescence. 30 Aug 2009
• Development of the Facial and Ocular Countermeasures Safety (FOCUS) headform. 30 Aug 2009
• The interplay of perceived social support and posttraumatic psychological distress following orofacial injury. 30 Aug 2009
• Securing tracheal tubes in facial burns. 30 Aug 2009
• Monkey bites in travelers: should we think of herpes B virus? 30 Jul 2009
• Principles and practices of treating facial cuts during boxing matches. 30 Jul 2009
• Distal parotid duct pseudocyst as a result of blunt facial trauma. 30 Jul 2009
• Contemporary management of pediatric facial trauma. 30 Jul 2009
• The cross-lip flap from 1756 to 1898. Reply to "The Sabattini-Abbé flap: a historical note". 30 Jul 2009
• Influence of the recipient site on the outcomes of fat grafting in facial reconstructive surgery. 30 Jul 2009
• Facial transplantation: lessons so far. 12 Jul 2009
• Near-total human face transplantation for a severely disfigured patient in the USA. 12 Jul 2009
• Iliac crest flap: donor site morbidity. 29 Jun 2009
• Scapula free flap for complex maxillofacial reconstruction. 29 Jun 2009
• A pilot study of the prevalence of orofacial and head injuries in schoolboy cricketers at eight private schools in England and Australia. 29 Jun 2009
• The psychological management of facial transplantation. 29 Jun 2009
• When violence strikes the head, neck, and face. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Facial Injuries'

Definition: General or unspecified injuries to the soft tissue or bony portions of the face.

Descriptor UI: D005151

Alternative terms: Facial Injuries; Injuries, Facial; Facial Injury; Injury, Facial;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.866.260.275;

Technical Notes: GEN or unspecified for soft tissue or bony portions of face; consider also /inj with FACIAL BONES or specific facial bones; fractures: see note on FACIAL BONES; TN 115: use of FACIAL INJURIES & jaw inj