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Many different benign and malignant processes affect the central skull base and petrous apices. Clinical evaluation and tissue sampling are difficult because of its deep location, leaving imaging assessment the primary means for lesion evaluation. Skull base lesions demonstrate a variety of confusing appearances on imaging, creating diagnostic dilemmas. It is important to be familiar with imaging appearances of common mimickers of malignant neoplasm in the skull base. This article familiarizes readers with imaging characteristics of various anatomic variants and benign pathologies that mimic malignant neoplasms, in hopes of increasing confidence of diagnosis, decreasing unnecessary procedures, and allaying patient fear.

Alongside the kidneys and lungs, the liver has been recognised as an important regulator of acid-base homeostasis. While respiratory alkalosis is the most common acid-base disorder in chronic liver disease, various complex metabolic acid-base disorders may occur with liver dysfunction. While the standard variables of acid-base equilibrium, such as pH and overall base excess, often fail to unmask the underlying cause of acid-base disorders, the physical-chemical acid-base model provides a more in-depth pathophysiological assessment for clinical judgement of acid-base disorders, in patients with liver diseases. Patients with stable chronic liver disease have several offsetting acidifying and alkalinising metabolic acid-base disorders. Hypoalbuminaemic alkalosis is counteracted by hyperchloraemic and dilutional acidosis, resulting in a normal overall base excess. When patients with liver cirrhosis become critically ill (e.g., because of sepsis or bleeding), this fragile equilibrium often tilts towards metabolic acidosis, which is attributed to lactic acidosis and acidosis due to a rise in unmeasured anions. Interestingly, even though patients with acute liver failure show significantly elevated lactate levels, often, no overt acid-base disorder can be found because of the offsetting hypoalbuminaemic alkalosis. In conclusion, patients with liver diseases may have multiple co-existing metabolic acid-base abnormalities. Thus, knowledge of the pathophysiological and diagnostic concepts of acid-base disturbances in patients with liver disease is critical for therapeutic decision making.

Treatment of nasal base deformities is critical for a successful rhinoplasty. Several anatomic variations are seen on nasal base. Alar base deformities can be horizontal excess or deficiency, vertical excess or deficiency, cephalic malposition or caudal malposition of alar base, wide or narrow nostril sills, and columellar base deformities. Columellar base should be addressed before alar base resections. Correction of columellar base deformities and positioning of medial crural footplates should be the primary step of nasal base surgery to attain aesthetic ideals of the columellar base and improve external nasal valve function. The most common deformities requiring alar base modification include wide nasal base, alar flaring, large nostril size, and asymmetries of nostrils or alae. There are 3 basic types of excision on alar base surgery. (1) Alar wedge excision, (2) nostril sill excision, and (3) combined alar wedge and nostril sill excision. The alar wedge excision is an elliptical excision placed in the alar crease that is used to reduce the size and shorten the vertical length of alar lobule and correct the excessive flaring on the frontal view. Nostril sill excision is the technique which is used to decrease interalar distance and nostril sill length, and reduce the size of nostril. The combined alar wedge and nostril sill excision is used in cases with wide alar base and additionally, there is excessive flaring and large alar lobule.