Progressive hemifacial atrophy associated with Lyme disease.

Stern, H S; Elliott, L F; Beegle, P H · Plast Reconstr Surg · 1992

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

A case is described of progressive hemifacial atrophy occurring in a child with Lyme disease. Borrelial infection may have been an etiologic factor in the progressive hemifacial atrophy, which was ultimately treated with an SIEA free-flap transfer.

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