TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Fellow Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Acute onset macroglossia is a rare yet life-threatening complication that may result from numerous etiologies including patient positioning while under anesthesia, oropharyngeal packing, local trauma, postoperative surgery in the oral cavity, or secondary to allergic nonallergic angioedema. Several management strategies have been desc...

Joyce K., aged 6, is the tenth of 12 children. The remainder of the family are healthy and there is no family history of any condition suggesting neurofibromatosis. Birth was normal and infancy uneventful, but the mother noticed a large and slightly protruding tongue when she first saw the child a few hours after birth. She had gastro-enteritis at 6 months, but apart from this had no serious il...

A 74 year old man with light-chain myeloma developed amyloidosis with macroglossia after 10 years of therapy with alkylating agents. Over a 2-year period his tongue enlarged to persistently protrude from his mouth, inhibit his speech, interfere with normal swallowing and eventually threaten his airway. As a life-saving procedure the tumorous anterior two-thirds of the tongue was resected, with ...

INTRODUCTION  macroglossia is a condition which influences the size and shape of the teeth employed due to the forces on teeth. OBJECTIVE  To establish bases for the indication of partial glossectomy associated with orthodontic treatment and surgical dento-facial deformity in patients without tumors and Down syndrome as a cause of macroglossia. CASE REPORTS  Three patients underwent orthogn...