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If the maneuver notably facilitates the patient's inspiration, that result is a positive Cottle sign —which generally indicates an airflow-correction to be surgically effected with an installed spreader-graft.
Non-surgical rhinoplasty is a medical aesthetic procedure in which injectable fillers, most commonly hyaluronic acid ones like Restylane and Juvederm or calcium hydroxyapatite (Radiesse), are used to alter and shape a person's nose without a surgery. [1] [2] The procedure fills in depressed areas on the nose, lifting the angle of the tip or ...
There are two main strategies involved for surgical rhinoplasty – open rhinoplasty and closed rhinoplasty. Open rhinoplasty offers a more accessible passage for the surgeon to incise the outer nasal skin, but it may introduce external scarring on the nose.
Eponymous medical signs are those that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient. This list includes other eponymous entities of diagnostic significance; i.e. tests, reflexes, etc.
Nikolsky's sign is a clinical dermatological sign, named after Pyotr Nikolsky (1858–1940), a Russian physician who trained and worked in the Russian Empire. The sign is present when slight rubbing of the skin results in exfoliation of the outermost layer.
Unlike the more common nasal operation called a rhinoplasty, which is the reconstruction of the nose using existing tissue, a prosthetic nose implantation requires the nose to be made completely from synthetic material. Prior to getting a nose prosthesis implanted, any original nose structure is removed via a rhinectomy in order to accommodate the prosthesis. [1] One of the biggest challenges ...
Hoover’s sign of leg paresis is one of two signs named for Charles Franklin Hoover. [1] It is a maneuver aimed to separate organic from non-organic paresis of the leg. [2]
The Chvostek sign ( / ˈkvɒstɪk /) is a clinical sign that someone may have a low blood calcium level (a decreased serum calcium, called hypocalcemia ). The Chvostek sign is the abnormal twitching of muscles that are activated (innervated) by the facial nerve (also known as Cranial Nerve Seven, or CNVII). [1] When the facial nerve is tapped ...
Carnett's sign. In medicine, Carnett's sign is a finding on clinical examination in which ( acute) abdominal pain remains unchanged or increases when the muscles of the abdominal wall are tensed. [1] [2] For this part of the abdominal examination, the patient can be asked to lift the head and shoulders from the examination table to tense the ...
Watson's test is used by physicians to diagnose scapholunate instability. This test has a low specificity and sometimes is positive for capito-lunate instability. As many as 20% of normal wrists will also have a 'clunk'.