Tuberculosis still maintains its place among important diseases today. This is becoming a problem not only in developing countries but also developed countries. Upper respiratory tuberculosis rare our country. bacillus can settle the mouth, tonsils, tongue, nose, epiglottis, larynx, and pharynx. A 16-year-old female patient living dormitory was admitted to clinic with complaint of tonsillitis r...

teratomas are bulky lesions that rarely occur in the head and neck regions.they are composed of tissues from all germ layers with varying degrees of differentiation. they arise from pluripotential stem cells and ectopic embryonic non-germ cells. the most common sites of occurrence in the head and neck are the cervical region and the nasopharynx. three cases of these tumors are reported here tha...

Mucoceles are one of the most common benign soft tissue masses of the oral cavity. When they occur in the tongue, the ventral surface is the usual location. Mucoceles at the base of the tongue are extremely rare and must be differentiated from intralingual thyroglossal duct cysts. We present a case of a mucocele on the base of the tongue, which was incidentally found on a cervical spinal magnet...

The anterior two thirds of the tongue lie in the oral cavity (mobile tongue). The posterior third (base of tongue) is in the oropharynx and the junction between the two is at the insertion of the anterior faucial pillar and the line of the circumvallate papillae. Eighty-five per cent of tumours arise on the lateral border of the oral tongue, 10 to 15% on the ventral surface and 5% or less from ...

Surgical treatment for retro-lingual obstruction in patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome remains a problem for which there is no simple solution. The techniques most in use (tongue suspension, genioglossal advancement with hyoid suspension) are effective primarily as stabilization methods modifying neither tongue position, nor volume and only produce appreciable results when...

OBJECTIVES To clarify the anatomical distribution of the lingual artery in normal adult subjects through histopathologic evaluations. METHODS Eighteen healthy cadaveric tongues were used to produce 8 paraffin-embedded tissue sections each. Length from midline raphe, depth from dorsum of tongue and the whole transverse length tongue were measured. The lateral distance, depth, and proportion of...

background: since the earliest days of medicine, the tongue has been considered a good reflection of systemic disease. hip­pocrates, galen and others considered the tongue to be barometer of health. in addition, the early diagnose of tongue le­sions help to recognize the some systemic diseases. the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of different mor­phological variations (anom...

OBJECTIVES Temperature-controlled radiofrequency volumetric reduction (TCRF), a minimally invasive procedure, has been used to treat tongue base obstruction in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS). An adjunctive method was objectively evaluated. METHOD A prospective, nonrandomized clinical study was undertaken on 20 consecutive OSAS patients with isolated tongue base obstruction. Under loc...

We present a case of primary oral tuberculosis that led to the diagnosis of HIV infection. Our patient had clinically nonspecific ulcers on the labial mucosa and on the ventral surface of the tongue which were diagnosed as being tuberculous only on histological examination. This raised the suspicion of HIV infection that was subsequently confirmed by blood tests. The oral lesions resolved after...