IgG4-related sclerosing disease is a distinct clinicopathologic entity known to involve the maxillofacial region, particularly the salivary, lacrimal, and pituitary glands. We report a case with lesions involving the tongue and palatine tonsil with associated skin lesions. A 45-year-old female patient presented with a history of soreness, dysphagia, and an asymptomatic rash involving the upper ...

background and aims. oral pemphigus vulgaris is a chronic autoimmune mucocutaneous intraepithelial disease that primarily affects patients over the age of fifty, resulting in mucosal ulceration and is a potentially life-threatening disease. the purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of dapsone in combination with systemic corticosteroids to treat the oral lesions of oral pemphigu...

aim : the study aims to document the oral lesions in patients with uc. background : inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is comprised of two chronic, tissue-destructive and clinical entities including crohn's disease (cd) and ulcerative colitis (uc), both of which are immunologically based. patients and methods : the population of the study includes fifty patients with uc, as the experimental group...

conclusions the authors recommended to have paraclinical tests, especially vitality tests, in addition to clinical and radiographic examinations to avoid endodontic mistreatment. in suspicious cases, biopsy of lesions, referral to pathologist, and long-term fallow-up is required. context the essential role of a general dental practitioner is recognizing the nature of the oral cavity lesions. pe...

Necrosis refers to a spectrum of morphologic changes that follow cell death in living tissue, largely resulting from the progressive degradative action enzymes on lethally injured (cells placed immediately fixative are dead but not necrotic).