Osteonecrosis of the jaw in an AIDS patient: a case report

We report a rare case of osteonecrosis of the jaw following necrotizing gingivitis in a Japanese AIDS patient. Intraoral examination showed exposed necrotic bone in the left mandible and spontaneous loss of teeth. This patient was successfully treated with highly active anti-retroviral therapy combi...

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Autores principales: Zushi, Yusuke, Noguchi, Kazuma, Moridera, Kuniyasu, Takaoka, Kazuki, Kishimoto, Hiromitsu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25932039
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12981-015-0049-8
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author Zushi, Yusuke
Noguchi, Kazuma
Moridera, Kuniyasu
Takaoka, Kazuki
Kishimoto, Hiromitsu
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description We report a rare case of osteonecrosis of the jaw following necrotizing gingivitis in a Japanese AIDS patient. Intraoral examination showed exposed necrotic bone in the left mandible and spontaneous loss of teeth. This patient was successfully treated with highly active anti-retroviral therapy combined with minimally invasive surgical procedures to remove the osteonecrosis of the jaw.
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spelling pubmed-44153152015-05-01 Osteonecrosis of the jaw in an AIDS patient: a case report Zushi, Yusuke Noguchi, Kazuma Moridera, Kuniyasu Takaoka, Kazuki Kishimoto, Hiromitsu AIDS Res Ther Case Report We report a rare case of osteonecrosis of the jaw following necrotizing gingivitis in a Japanese AIDS patient. Intraoral examination showed exposed necrotic bone in the left mandible and spontaneous loss of teeth. This patient was successfully treated with highly active anti-retroviral therapy combined with minimally invasive surgical procedures to remove the osteonecrosis of the jaw. BioMed Central 2015-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4415315/ /pubmed/25932039 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12981-015-0049-8 Text en © Zushi et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Zushi, Yusuke
Noguchi, Kazuma
Moridera, Kuniyasu
Takaoka, Kazuki
Kishimoto, Hiromitsu
Osteonecrosis of the jaw in an AIDS patient: a case report
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title_full Osteonecrosis of the jaw in an AIDS patient: a case report
title_fullStr Osteonecrosis of the jaw in an AIDS patient: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Osteonecrosis of the jaw in an AIDS patient: a case report
title_short Osteonecrosis of the jaw in an AIDS patient: a case report
title_sort osteonecrosis of the jaw in an aids patient: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25932039
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12981-015-0049-8
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