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KMID : 0378019730160060110
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New Medical Journal
1973 Volume.16 No. 6 p.110 ~ p.112
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"Coup de sabre" deformity
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Abstract
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Romberg´s disease (progressive facial hemiatrophy) may involve any or the superficial facial tissue, affecting overlying skin, subcutanocus tissue, underlying muscles, and the cartilages and bones as well in some instances.
There is no proved cause for this disorder. In general the atrophy progresses very slowly and has its onset in the adolescent or young adult. The defect is usually limited to the field of distribution of one of the branches of the trigeminal nerve.
Coup de sabre deformity is one of chief but not constant entities of this disorder, which reveals a sharp boder line that demarks the abnormal from normal side of the forehead, as if the patient had been struck with a sword or saber down through the middle of the forehead.
After the active process has subsided, pre-designed silastic sponge insertion produces dramatic improvement in the appearance of these patients.
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