Paralysis of the facial nerve may arise due to infection, inflammation, surgery, trauma, and tumors. Damage to this nerve, which is the seventh cranial nerve, may be uni- or bilateral. It results in ...

The orbital surgeon has a prima facie obligation to perform the safest and most efficacious orbital decompression possible for a patient with proptosis in thyroid-associated orbitopathy. Orbital ...

Decompression sickness, in which bubbles formed from dissolved gas (usually nitrogen) cause tissue and vascular injury after a reduction in environmental pressure, may occur in diving, aviation, and ...