Oral surgery, oral medicine, and oral pathology
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Oral Surg. Oral Med. Oral Pathol. · Sep 1981
Case ReportsSpontaneous regression of oral histoplasmosis.
A case of histoplasmosis with an unusual clinical presentation and subsequent disease course was diagnosed when a tooth extraction site failed to heal. Culture, biopsy, and serologic study confirmed the presence of Histoplasma capsulatum. ⋯ Oral and pulmonary lesions regressed without treatment. This case is presented to raise the question of whether all cases of histoplasmosis with oral involvement should be assumed to be disseminated disease requiring treatment with amphotercin B.
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Oral Surg. Oral Med. Oral Pathol. · Aug 1980
Case ReportsVisceral Kaposi's sarcoma presenting with gingival lesions.
This is the first reported case of fatal visceral Kaposi's sarcoma which presented with oral lesions and in which skin lesions were absent throughout the course of the disease. Both clinical and histologic recognition may be difficult because of the similarity of the lesions to pyogenic granuloma.
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Oral Surg. Oral Med. Oral Pathol. · Jan 1980
Case ReportsMental nerve neuropathy: a complication of sickle-cell crisis.
Anesthesia of the mental nerve, a rare complication of sickle-cell disease, has been reported. This is the first documented and reported case occurring in the United States. A review of the basic pathophysiology of the disease has been presented.
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Oral Surg. Oral Med. Oral Pathol. · Jul 1979
Case ReportsTrismus after injection of local anesthetic.
Persistent pain at the site of injection is the most common complication of local anesthesia in the oral cavity. The complication of trismus after local anesthetic injection is rare and may be prevented by the use of short needles for maxillary posterior injections, and by the avoidance of multiple injections in a short period time. Once trismus develops, its progression to chronic hypomobility and fibrous ankylosis may be prevented by the early institution of treatment consisting of heat, analgesics, muscle relaxants, and exercises.