ABSTRACT
Fever is an increase in body temperature beyond the normal range, acting as a protective inflammatory mechanism. This article summarizes diseases with fever encountered in dental clinics, including what is known about pyrexia in coronavirus infection, and further proposes a "six steps in one" identification and analysis strategy to guide the clinical work of stomatology.
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Humans , Dental Clinics , Fever/diagnosis , Coronavirus InfectionsABSTRACT
Infectious diseases are caused by infection of organism with pathogenic agents, which may lead to epidemics. Many infectious diseases such as syphilis, diphtheria, measles, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome have specific and non-specific manifestations in the oral cavity. However, the same disease may have different oral manifestations in different patients clinically. We can apply the strategy of "three unusuals and one change" in clinical reasoning for diagnosis of infectious diseases with oral manifestations. The so-called "three unusuals" refer to unusual age, unusual location and unusual effect, and "one change" means the change from rare to common. In this article, we will give a comprehensive introduction about the oral manifestations of common communicable diseases and their diagnostic strategies.
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Humans , Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome , Measles , SyphilisABSTRACT
Duodenum-and bile duct-preserving pancreatic head resection is rarely carried out in China due to its complexity.From September 2013 to May 2014,5 patients (1 with mass-forming pancreatitis of the head of the pancreas,2 with mucinous cystadenoma of the pancreatic duct combined with focal cancerous,2 with chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic duct stones) received duodenum-and bile duct-preserving pancreatic head resection at the Zhangzhou Zhengxing Hospital.The lesions of the 5 patients were resected by the Takada method and then the pancreatic duct was reconstructed in situ.One patient received T-tube drainage of the bile duct.The operation time was 210-330 minutes,and the mean volume of intraoperative blood loss was 300 mL (range,100-500 mL).The stones of 2 patients were antler-shaped,and the other 3 patients were with tumor.No patients died intraoperatively.One patient was complicated by pancreatic leakage and 1 by bile leakage after the operation,respectively,and they were cured by non-surgical treatment.Patients were followed up for 3-11 months,and no abnormal glucose metabolism,common bile duct stricture,chronic indigestion and tumor recurrence occurred.The Takada method is safe and effective for the treatment of mass-forming pancreatitis of the head of the pancreas,benign lesions of the head of the pancreas and low-grade malignant tumor of the head of the pancreas.