Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome

Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome: Appropriate response to the combination treatment with intralesional triamcinolone injection and oral azithromycin

Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome is an uncommon disorder which is presented by a triad of lip swelling, facial nerve palsy, and a fissured tongue. A number of treatments have been reported for this syndrome with variable outcomes. We have reported a 38-year-old female patient with lower lip swelling and a fissured tongue on clinical examination. She was also suffering from facial nerve paralysis s...

Melkersson-rosenthal syndrome: a case report

This case report describes a patient with Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome. The clinical manifestation and current aetiological postulates are discussed.

PERIPHERAL FACIAL PALSY Grading, Etiology, and Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome

...................................................... Abbreviations................................................ Introduction................................................... Review of the literature................................... Peripheral facial palsy........................................ Grading facial function....................................... Acute idiopathic peripheral f...

Cheilitis granulomatosa associated with melkersson - rosenthal syndrome Summary

Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome with partial oculomotor nerve palsy.

Ann Saudi Med 28(2) March-April 2008 www.saudiannals.net 135 Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome (MRS) is a rare granulomatous disease characterized by orofacial edema, facial nerve palsy, and furrowed tongue (lingua plicata).1,2 This is the classic triad which defines the syndrome, although it is accepted that the presence of two manifestations or one with a granulomatous cheilitis in the eyelid bio...