Cancrum Oris and Allied Conditions
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چکیده
The subject of gangrenous stomatitis does not appealto have received the attention it deserves from the general medical profession. Diverse ideas about its incidence and etiology are still current in different parts of the world. The descriptions given in the various recognized testbooks of medicine, written both in the old and new world, are of little help to a medical man practising in the tropics. In fact all the etiological factors which are known in its connection in our country are hardly considered in the European and American continents, and this discrepancy may be attributed to lack of adequate exchange of views regarding the different clinical conditions in which cancrum oris occurs. A study of this subject, as well as of its allied conditions, may therefore be of interest to the medical profession. In Europe and America, this morbid condition has been frequently described as ' characteristically a disease of children exhausted and devitalized by measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria
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دوره 78 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1943