Laugier-Hunziker syndrome is a rare acquired disorder characterized by macular hyperpigmentation of the oral and occasionally genital mucosa as well as longitudinal melanonychia. It is considered a benign condition without systemic manifestation or malignant potential. We report on a woman who concomitantly developed Laugier-Hunziker syndrome and a carcinoma of the pancreas.

Pyogenic liver abscesses are caused by various microorganisms and usually present with fever, abdominal pain, leukocytosis and liver enzyme abnormalities. This case presents the insidious manifestation of a pyogenic liver abscess in a 34-year-old immunocompetent male, where classical manifestations of a liver abscess were absent. The microorganisms cultured from the abscess belonged to oral cav...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic demyelinating disease which is considered to be an autoimmune disease impacting the central nervous system (CNS). Patients with MS may have certain orofacial manifestations and oral microbiological changes as a result of different treatment modalities. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the changes of Candida Albicans in normal oral flora during different...

Successful Treatment of Rosai-DorfmanDisease With Low-DoseOral Thalidomide Rosai–Dorfman disease (RDD) is a rare idiopathic histiocytic proliferative disorder.1 The skin is the most frequently involved extranodal organ. Nevertheless, primary cutaneous manifestation of RDD (CRDD) without systemic involvement is rare.2 We present herein a case of CRDD showing excellent remission after low-dose or...

Objective: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is one of the most common endocrine diseases with many systemic complications such as oral manifestations. The present study aimed to compare the oral manifestations frequency in diabetic patients and healthy subjects. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted during 2016-17 on subjects came to Yazd Diabetic Research Center. In this study...

purpose: a 12 year-old boy and a known case of job’s syndrome presented with a large conjunctival mass which represented coexistence of hpv and hsv infections. case report: the presence of hpv virus within these lesions was confirmed by biopsy and dna analysis. the mass lesions did not respond to anti-hpv therapy with topical interferon-α2b, oral cimetidine and oral acyclovir, but improved prom...

Background: Myeloid sarcoma (MS) is a solid malignant tumour associated with infiltration of immature myeloid precursor cells in an extramedullary site. The term MS has replaced the term granulocytic sarcoma and chloroma, which were used in the past. MS in the oral cavity is very uncommon, with less of 40 cases reported until recently. Case Report: We report the first case, the features, and th...