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Thymoma associated myasthenia gravis with atypical presentation of lipomatous tongue atrophy: a case report

A 28-year-old female patient came to the outpatient dental clinic for multiple teeth extractions and full mouth rehabilitation suffer from myasthenia gravis (MG) primary presentation as tongue atrophy and facial muscles weakness and the symptoms became worries, the patient unable to speak as well an...

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Autores principales: Salem, Suzan, Saad, Islam, Alamri, Rana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6522161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31143343
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.38.17768
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description A 28-year-old female patient came to the outpatient dental clinic for multiple teeth extractions and full mouth rehabilitation suffer from myasthenia gravis (MG) primary presentation as tongue atrophy and facial muscles weakness and the symptoms became worries, the patient unable to speak as well and change her voice and complaining of dysphagia and dysarthria. Oral symptoms, treatment schedule and protocol, the selection, prescription and impacts of medications, and prevention of myasthenic crisis are all important; aspects should be considered by dentists and oral health care providers. Weakness of facial and oropharyngeal muscle is considered very popular at disease onset and therefore oral health providers are often the first medical professionals to observe these patients. Myasthenic patients seek particular approach and consultation in order to ensure ideal and proper dental management.
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spelling pubmed-65221612019-05-29 Thymoma associated myasthenia gravis with atypical presentation of lipomatous tongue atrophy: a case report Salem, Suzan Saad, Islam Alamri, Rana Pan Afr Med J Case Report A 28-year-old female patient came to the outpatient dental clinic for multiple teeth extractions and full mouth rehabilitation suffer from myasthenia gravis (MG) primary presentation as tongue atrophy and facial muscles weakness and the symptoms became worries, the patient unable to speak as well and change her voice and complaining of dysphagia and dysarthria. Oral symptoms, treatment schedule and protocol, the selection, prescription and impacts of medications, and prevention of myasthenic crisis are all important; aspects should be considered by dentists and oral health care providers. Weakness of facial and oropharyngeal muscle is considered very popular at disease onset and therefore oral health providers are often the first medical professionals to observe these patients. Myasthenic patients seek particular approach and consultation in order to ensure ideal and proper dental management. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6522161/ /pubmed/31143343 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.38.17768 Text en © Suzan Salem et al et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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title Thymoma associated myasthenia gravis with atypical presentation of lipomatous tongue atrophy: a case report
title_full Thymoma associated myasthenia gravis with atypical presentation of lipomatous tongue atrophy: a case report
title_fullStr Thymoma associated myasthenia gravis with atypical presentation of lipomatous tongue atrophy: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Thymoma associated myasthenia gravis with atypical presentation of lipomatous tongue atrophy: a case report
title_short Thymoma associated myasthenia gravis with atypical presentation of lipomatous tongue atrophy: a case report
title_sort thymoma associated myasthenia gravis with atypical presentation of lipomatous tongue atrophy: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6522161/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.38.17768
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