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
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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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author Ozgur, Gulsum Teke
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description 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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spelling pubmed-43527312015-03-23 A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue Ozgur, Gulsum Teke Akdogan, Mehmet Volkan Unler, Gulhan Kanat Gokturk, Huseyin Savas Case Rep Gastrointest Med Case Report 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. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4352731/ /pubmed/25802771 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/431738 Text en Copyright © 2015 Gulsum Teke Ozgur et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Unler, Gulhan Kanat
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A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue
title A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue
title_full A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue
title_fullStr A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue
title_short A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue
title_sort rare cause of acute dysphagia: abscess of the base of the tongue
topic Case Report
url 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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