Common superficial oral lesions include candidiasis, recurrent herpes labialis, recurrent aphthous stomatitis, erythema migrans, hairy tongue, and lichen planus. Recognition and diagnosis require taking a thorough history and performing a complete oral examination. Knowledge of clinical characteristics such as size, location, surface morphology, color, pain, and duration is helpful in establish...

background: oral aphthous is one of the most common oral mucosal inflammatory disorders which are very painful. there is no definite medical strategy up to now for aphthous treatment. recently, some researchers have focused on immunomodulatory drugs such as tacrolimus and pimecrolimus in preventing aphthus recurrences. the aim of this study is to assess the effect of pimecrolimus cream against ...

Introduction Marshall Syndrome or PFAPA is an inflammatory periodic disease characterized by periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and cervical adenitis. Restless, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, hepatosplenomegaly and arthralgia are less common symptoms seeing in this disease. The diagnosis is established on the basis of clinical criteria that require the presence of a recurrent...

The Periodic Fever, Aphthous stomatitis, Pharyngitis and cervical Adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome is the most common of the autoinflammatory syndromes in childhood. Symptoms may highly mimic recurrent tonsillitis, and tonsillectomy may be an option for cure in these patients. It is therefore of high interest for otolaryngologists to be aware of and updated on this syndrome, to avoid overlooking the s...

Contact dermatitis 39 (9.4) Psoriasis 9 (2.2) Fungal infections 35 (8.4) Recurrent aphthous stomatitis 8 (1.9) Drug reactions 28 (6.7) No dermatologic disease 8 (1.9) Cellulitis 27 (6.4) Seborrhoeic dermatitis 7 (1.7) Xerosis cutis 15 (3.6) Behçet disease 7 (1.7) Pruritus 15 (3.6) Malignancy 7 (1.7) Vasculitis 14 (3.4) Oral candidiasis 7 (1.7) Stasis dermatitis 14 (3.4) Acneiform disease 6 (1.4...

BACKGROUND The frequency of recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS), the most common oral mucosa lesions seen in primary care, is up to 25% in the general population. However, there has been no optimal therapeutic approach. Our objective was to confirm our previous clinical observation of the beneficial treatment of RAS with vitamin B(12). METHODS A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled tr...