Idiopathic gangrene of the tongue: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Gangrene of the tongue is an extremely rare condition. We encountered a 35-year-old patient who presented with this entity. CASE PRESENTATION: A 35-year-old male patient from rural background presented with blackening of the tongue. Its exact cause could not be ascertained. Examination...

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Autores principales: Pandey, Anand, Saluja, Lokesh, Agarwal, Ajay, Sagar, Sudesh K
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829780
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6290
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author Pandey, Anand
Saluja, Lokesh
Agarwal, Ajay
Sagar, Sudesh K
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Agarwal, Ajay
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description INTRODUCTION: Gangrene of the tongue is an extremely rare condition. We encountered a 35-year-old patient who presented with this entity. CASE PRESENTATION: A 35-year-old male patient from rural background presented with blackening of the tongue. Its exact cause could not be ascertained. Examination revealed it to be gangrene. It was treated with excision of the gangrenous part. CONCLUSION: As this is a very rare condition, it is being reported with a brief review of the relevant literature. The treatment must be based on the etiology; however, if the etiology is not known, it must be symptomatic.
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spelling pubmed-27402742009-10-14 Idiopathic gangrene of the tongue: a case report Pandey, Anand Saluja, Lokesh Agarwal, Ajay Sagar, Sudesh K Cases J Case report INTRODUCTION: Gangrene of the tongue is an extremely rare condition. We encountered a 35-year-old patient who presented with this entity. CASE PRESENTATION: A 35-year-old male patient from rural background presented with blackening of the tongue. Its exact cause could not be ascertained. Examination revealed it to be gangrene. It was treated with excision of the gangrenous part. CONCLUSION: As this is a very rare condition, it is being reported with a brief review of the relevant literature. The treatment must be based on the etiology; however, if the etiology is not known, it must be symptomatic. Cases Network Ltd 2009-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2740274/ /pubmed/19829780 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6290 Text en © 2009 Pandey et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Idiopathic gangrene of the tongue: a case report
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title_full Idiopathic gangrene of the tongue: a case report
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title_short Idiopathic gangrene of the tongue: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829780
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6290
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