Sucking Pads: A Report of Two Newborns

The sucking pad is a hyperkeratotic thickening of the lips of a neonate. It might present either at birth or develop later in the neonatal period. It indicates that the child has effective sucking. We present two babies who developed the peeling of the lips during the neonatal period. It was mistrea...

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Autores principales: Thadchanamoorthy, Vijayakumary, Thirukumar, Markandu, Dayasiri, Kavinda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7657316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33194471
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10904
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description The sucking pad is a hyperkeratotic thickening of the lips of a neonate. It might present either at birth or develop later in the neonatal period. It indicates that the child has effective sucking. We present two babies who developed the peeling of the lips during the neonatal period. It was mistreated as various conditions. Ultimately, it was diagnosed as a sucking pad, and the parents were reassured that it was a benign lesion.
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spelling pubmed-76573162020-11-12 Sucking Pads: A Report of Two Newborns Thadchanamoorthy, Vijayakumary Thirukumar, Markandu Dayasiri, Kavinda Cureus Pediatrics The sucking pad is a hyperkeratotic thickening of the lips of a neonate. It might present either at birth or develop later in the neonatal period. It indicates that the child has effective sucking. We present two babies who developed the peeling of the lips during the neonatal period. It was mistreated as various conditions. Ultimately, it was diagnosed as a sucking pad, and the parents were reassured that it was a benign lesion. Cureus 2020-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7657316/ /pubmed/33194471 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10904 Text en Copyright © 2020, Thadchanamoorthy et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7657316/
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