Aim: To evaluate frequency of commonest location traumatic oral ulcers after complete denture insertion and find out their association with age, gender arch type. Study design: Cross sectional observational study Place duration: Prosthodontic department Islamic International Dental College, Riphah University Islamabad, from 11th Feb.,2022 till April 2022. Methodology: A sample 150 completely ed...

Methotrexate-associated lymphoproliferative disorders are a heterogeneous group of lymphoid proliferations or lymphomas that develop in patients with autoimmune diseases treated using methotrexate. These lymphoproliferative disorders are often associated with Epstein-Barr virus infection and occasionally regress after the withdrawal of methotrexate therapy. The lymphoproliferative disorder in t...

BACKGROUND Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) appears to be the most common type of oral ulcers. The lesion is usually self limited but its painful presentation results in some difficulties. Therefore, an efficient therapeutic strategy is required and currently existing therapies seem to be inadequate because of its unclear etiology. Here the therapeutic effect of triamcinolone acetonide ointm...

Indomethacin is a nonsteroid anti-inflammatory agent that is known to induce severe gastric mucosal lesions. In this study, we investigated the effect of selenium on gastric mucosal lesions in rats. To confirm the curative effect of selenium against indomethacin-induced gastric ulcers, gastric ulcers were induced by oral administration of 25 mg/kg indomethacin, and then different doses (10, 50,...

Three women with large, mutilating genital ulcers of long duration, destroying almost the lower half of the external genitalia, are reported. They had a history of recurrent oral ulcers as well. All patients had been diagnosed as having 'genital ulcer syndrome' in the past and had been treated with antimicrobials. Histopathology of the biopsy from the margin of the ulcer revealed features of le...

Tuberculosis of the oral cavity, pharynx and larynx due to extrapulmonary involvement tuberculosis is very rare. Because their rare characteristics, lesions represented by ulcers tumors found in are often mistaken for other diseases, resulting delays diagnosis treatment. The authors report a case laryngopharyngeal accompanying pulmonary who presented with odynophagia tongue mass.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Behçet disease (BD) is a systemic immune-mediated vasculitis of unknown origin characterised by recurrent orogenital ulceration, ocular inflammation and skin lesions. The aim of our study was to identify ear, nose and throat (ENT) manifestations associated with BD. PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective review of the medical records of all patients diagnosed with BD wh...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the therapeutic and prophylactic effectiveness of oral zinc sulfate in recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) in comparison with dapsone. METHODS A double-blind placebo controlled study, conducted in the Department of Dermatology, Baghdad Teaching Hospitals, Baghdad, Iraq between May 2005 and October 2006, in which 45 patients with RAS were recruited and divided into 3 equa...

OBJECTIVE to assess the clinical effect of topical treatment using Ulmo honey associated with oral ascorbic acid in patients with venous ulcers. METHOD longitudinal and descriptive quantitative study. During one year, 18 patients were assessed who were clinically diagnosed with venous ulcer in different stages, male and female, adult, with a mean injury time of 13 months. Ulmo honey was topic...

OBJECTIVE To determine the presence of Helicobacter pylori and, if detected, its potential prevalence in causing recurrent aphthous ulcers confined to mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues of the pharynx. DESIGN Prospective, controlled clinical trial. SETTING Otolaryngology Department of Tanta University Hospitals, Tanta, Egypt. PATIENTS A total of 146 patients with recurrent multiple aphtho...