Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is characterised by the presence of a burning sensation in the oral mucosa in the absence of any clinically apparent mucosal sign. It occurs more commonly in older women and often affects the tongue tip and lateral borders, lips, and hard and soft palates. Besides the burning sensation, patients with BMS may complain of unremitting oral mucosal pain, dysgeusia, and ...

BACKGROUND Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a burning or sore mouth in the absence of changes in the oral mucosa. It is often difficult to diagnose and treat. Numerous theories of the etiology have been suggested, including contact allergy. OBJECTIVE To determine the clinical utility of patch testing in patients with BMS. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the charts of patients diagnosed w...

INTRODUCTION Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is characterized by an oral burning sensation in the absence of any organic disorders of the oral cavity. Although the cause of BMS is not known, a complex association of biological and psychological factors has been identified, suggesting the existence of a multifactorial etiology. MATERIAL AND METHOD A PubMed/Medline search was used to identify arti...

The purpose of this study was to apply high-wattage pulsed irradiation of linearly polarized near-infrared light to the stellate ganglion area for burning mouth syndrome (BMS) and to assess the efficacy of the stellate ganglion area irradiation (SGR) on BMS using differential time-/frequency-domain parameters (D parameters). Three patients with BMS received high-wattage pulsed SGR; the response...

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS MSJ JOURNAL Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects young adults during the most productive period of life. 1 The disease course is highly heterogeneous and includes a subgroup of patients who show little or no disease progression and minimal disability decades after the clinical onset, the so-called benign MS (BMS). 2 In a 1996 consensus meeting, BMS was defined as a 'disease in whi...

PURPOSE The studies described here are intended to characterize the ability of BMS-599626, a small-molecule inhibitor of the human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER) kinase family, to modulate signaling and growth of tumor cells that depend on HER1 and/or HER2. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN The potency and selectivity of BMS-599626 were assessed in biochemical assays using recombinant protein kinas...

BACKGROUND Treatment of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction is possible with a bare metal stent (BMS), although this treatment causes pulmonary regurgitation. In this study, we assessed the acute physiological effects of BMS versus percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (PPVI) using an x-ray/magnetic resonance hybrid laboratory. METHODS AND RESULTS Fourteen consecutive children (me...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate differences in lesion-specific outcomes with the "off-label" use of drug-eluting stents (DES) versus bare metal stents (BMS). METHODS MEDLINE, PubMed, the Cochrane databases, and other Web were searched for studies evaluating off-label use of DES and BMS with the same characteristics. Of 1,258 abstracts or manuscripts reviewed, 1...