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A Finite Element model of the face soft tissue is proposed to simulate the morphological outcomes of maxillofacial surgery. Three modelling options are implemented: a linear elastic model with small and large deformation hypothesis, and an hyperelastic Mooney-Rivlin model. An evaluation procedure based on a qualitative and quantitative comparison of the simulations with a post-operative CT scan is detailed. It is then applied to one clinical case to evaluate the differences between the three models, and with the actual patient morphology. First results shows in particular that for a "simple" clinical procedure where stress is less than 20%, a linear model seams sufficient for a correct modelling.

Context: Sight-threatening Graves' orbitopathy affects 3% to 5% of patients with Graves' orbitopathy.Objectives: To describe the management of patients with sight-threatening Graves' orbitopathy seen in a multidisciplinary thyroid-eye outpatient clinic dedicated to Graves' orbitopathy (GO). Patients and methods:We enrolled all patients with sight-threatening GO (dysthyroid optic neuropathy and corneal ulcer as defined in the EUGOGO statement) seen and treated in our GO multidisciplinary thyroid-eye outpatient clinic over the last two decades.Results: A total of 31 patients (median age 51 years old) including 24 women (77%) and 58% active smokers. This population represented 47 cases (case = eye) of sightthreatening GO. Dysthyroid optic neuropathy (DON) occurred in 40 eyes, corneal ulcer in 15 eyes and both in 8. At presentation, the clinical features of DON were reduced visual acuity (85%), visual field defects (80%), optic disc swelling (42%) and reduced colour vision (100%). At one year, surgical orbital decompression (OD) was performed in 82.5% of DON cases. Only seven eyes with DON were treated with pulses of intra-venous glucocorticoids. For 10 patients, several therapeutic strategies (OD n = 4, punctal plug n = 1, amniotic membrane graft n = 2, tarsorrhaphy n = 2, botulinum toxin injection = 3 and eyelid surgery n = 2) were used to treat corneal ulcer. For each ophthalmological parameter, more than 85% of DON cases had recovery or improvement after treatment. For visual acuity in corneal ulcer, it was 71.4%. Conclusion:We report 47 cases of sight-threatening GO. Orbital decompression was performed in the majority of DON cases and several therapeutic strategies were necessary to treat corneal ulcer. The results are satisfactory in sight-threatening Graves' orbitopathy due to multidisciplinary management. K E Y W O R D Scornea, dysthyroid optic neuropathy, orbital decompression, sight-threatening Graves' orbitopathy | 209TramunT eT al.

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The goal of this cadaver study has to propose the concept of angiosomes of the tongue (arterial cartography) from the notion of lingual artery segmentation, known in the literature since 1998. Fifteen fresh cadaver heads were used in this study. Four selective ink injections were made in specific location of the lingual artery like the segmentation concept. Three mucosal territories of the tongue were defined and they appear dependent on the precise segments of the lingual artery. The territory of the deep lingual artery is the dorsal side of the tongue, the territory of the sublingual artery is the ventral side and the territory depending of the dorsal artery is the root of tongue. No study was published yet about the vascular territories of the tongue. This study brings an additional knowledge and a review about the vascular risk of the tongue resections. The originality of this study consists of the description of vascular territories of tongue proceeding to different segment of lingual artery, which has not been described in the literature since now. The knowledge of these two notions is useful before every tongue resection, which can compromise the vascularity of the remaining tongue, and at the time of the lingual revascularization, once this vascularity is compromise.