A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue

Dysphagia represents a difficulty in passage of solid or liquid foods from the oral cavity into the stomach and is considered as an alarm symptom of gastrointestinal system. It often indicates an organic disease and needs to be explained. In this paper, a case of 61-year-old man with posterior tongu...

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Autores principales: Ozgur, Gulsum Teke, Akdogan, Mehmet Volkan, Unler, Gulhan Kanat, Gokturk, Huseyin Savas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4352731/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25802771
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/431738
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Sumario:Dysphagia represents a difficulty in passage of solid or liquid foods from the oral cavity into the stomach and is considered as an alarm symptom of gastrointestinal system. It often indicates an organic disease and needs to be explained. In this paper, a case of 61-year-old man with posterior tongue abscess is presented.

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