Oral tuberculosis involving maxillary gingiva

Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is transmitted by aerosolized saliva droplets among individuals in close contact with expelled sputum of a diseased patient. However, TB lesions of the oral cavity are often overlooked in the differential diagnos...

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Autores principales: Jaiswal, Rohit, Singh, Anil, Badni, Manjunath, Singh, Priyanka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3343410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22639508
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.94476
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author Jaiswal, Rohit
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description Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is transmitted by aerosolized saliva droplets among individuals in close contact with expelled sputum of a diseased patient. However, TB lesions of the oral cavity are often overlooked in the differential diagnosis. We report here a case of tuberculosis of oral cavity affecting the gingiva of a 24-year-old male.
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spelling pubmed-33434102012-05-25 Oral tuberculosis involving maxillary gingiva Jaiswal, Rohit Singh, Anil Badni, Manjunath Singh, Priyanka Natl J Maxillofac Surg Case Report Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is transmitted by aerosolized saliva droplets among individuals in close contact with expelled sputum of a diseased patient. However, TB lesions of the oral cavity are often overlooked in the differential diagnosis. We report here a case of tuberculosis of oral cavity affecting the gingiva of a 24-year-old male. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3343410/ /pubmed/22639508 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.94476 Text en Copyright: © National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3343410/
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