Hemiatrophia faciei, symptomaticM34.8
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Circumscript scleroderma of one half of the face with encroachment on soft tissue and bone.
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Often occurring in childhood and adolescence.
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Initial edema, later sclerosis (difference to Hemiatrophia faciei progressiva) of a skin area on one side of the face or the whole half of the face, possibly infestation of soft tissues and bones with deformation.
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The therapy approaches usually come too late. In the stage of sclerosing inflammation: trial with high-dose penicillin G (10 million IU/day i.v.), combination with UVA1 irradiation (40-60 J/cm2; total dose at 1200 J/cm2), correction of facial deformities by plastic surgery (e.g. fat implantation) in the burned-out stage. S.a.u. scleroderma, circumscripts.