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6959055

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1983-1-7
pubmed:abstractText
Thirty-three patients (seventeen females and sixteen males), six with complete and twenty-seven with abortive forms of Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome (MRS) have been studied. Only patients with histologic granulomatous involvement were included in the study. The onset of MRS occurred predominantly during the second decade of life; the disease had a median duration of 6 1/2 years and a range of 6 months to 31 years. Recurrent lip swelling gradually turning into a permanent enlargement was the dominating sign, but changes in the buccal, palatal, sublingual, and gingival mucosa were frequently recorded as well. Peripheral facial paralysis occurred in 20 percent of the patients and plicated tongue in 40 percent. Laboratory investigations showed no specific changes. The elimination of odontogenic infectious foci was followed by regression or disappearance of the swellings in eleven of sixteen patient, suggesting a pathogenic mechanism. The present study does not seem to justify resections of the swellings when exacerbations are still occurring. A conservative approach is recommended.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
D
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0030-4220
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
54
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
404-13
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1982
pubmed:articleTitle
Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome and cheilitis granulomatosa. A clinicopathological study of thirty-three patients with special reference to their oral lesions.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article