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INTRODUCTION: Congenital hypoplasia of the depressor anguli oris muscle is a rare mimic disorder depicted by a lower lip asymmetry apparent when laughing or crying. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 10-year-old boy consulted our department for an asymmetry when opening his mouth. According to the family, this asymmetry was present since birth. Perinatal characteristics and childhood medical history were investigated with no abnormalities. Physical exam revealed an inability to draw down the right lower lip unilaterally. At rest position, facial asymmetry was not noticeable. Several investigations were done: A CT scan of the petrous part of the temporal bone, an MRI of soft tissues, an electromyography and a heart ultrasound. No anomalies were found. DISCUSSION: This condition has stimulated great interest because of its potential association with congenital anomalies but also in order to reassure families often worried by the situation. A large therapeutic armamentarium is described in literature. CONCLUSION: Among the large armamentarium of therapeutic options, we opted for a wait and see strategy through photographic smile tracking leading to an evidence of Asymmetric crying faces over time improvement.
ABSTRACT
Infantile cutaneous hemangioma is a benign vascular tumour present at 10% of the infants. It forms part of the group of the vascular tumours in the classification of international society for vascular anomalies (ISSVA). Usual surgical attitude is abstention and surgery is proposed only in order to treat sequelae. But some particular situations require early surgery to avoid functional impairment, deformation or growth delay due to the lesion's development. Using our observations, we recall the epidemiology, the physiopathology, the clinical aspects, the particularities of the facial localizations and their treatments. In these localizations the time intervenes like a fourth dimension that is going to modify, to improve or to aggravate the prognosis. Treatment requires a strategy and precocious surgery. We insist on the fact that the dogma of the therapeutic abstention remained true for a majority of children with small size hemangioma and that a precocious surgery must be proposed for some localizations in the face.
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Facial Neoplasms/surgery , Hemangioma/surgery , Age Factors , Facial Neoplasms/diagnosis , Facial Neoplasms/epidemiology , Facial Neoplasms/physiopathology , Hemangioma/diagnosis , Hemangioma/epidemiology , Hemangioma/physiopathology , HumansABSTRACT
Dermoïd cysts are benign tumours, resulting of an embryologic defect. They usually have good prognosis, only a single case of malignant transformation of a sublingual dermoid cyst has been brought back in literature. We report a case of carcinomatous transformation of a dermoïd cyst of the scalp, in a 54 years old man.
