ABSTRACT
Pharyngeal tuberculosis is very rare and normally appears as an seemingly malignant process. As a result of which it is essential to perform a differential diagnosis before beginning anticancer treatment. We present a clinical case of lingual tonsil tuberculosis. A review is made of the pathogenic mechanisms, the clinical manifestations and the diagnosis of pharyngeal tuberculosis, whose response to treatment with antituberculous drugs proves to be excellent.
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Palatine Tonsil/pathology , Tongue/pathology , Tuberculosis, Oral/pathology , Aged , Antitubercular Agents/therapeutic use , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Tuberculosis, Oral/drug therapyABSTRACT
Seventy dorsal flaps were created in rabbits: 18 cutaneous pedicled flaps and 7 cutaneous free flaps: 23 myocutaneous pedicled flaps and 22 myocutaneous free flaps. Flap viability was compared and its predictability using subjective and objective tests was evaluated. Pedicled flaps had a better survival rate. Cutaneous fluorescence was useful for predicting flap viability.
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Surgical Flaps , Animals , Fluorescence , Graft Survival , RabbitsABSTRACT
Secondary angioneurotic oedema due to antihypertensive drugs of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors type, is an uncommon entity which must be remembered when dealing with differential diagnosis of this type of oedema. We have reviewed the subject following 2 of our own cases.
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Angioedema/etiology , Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors/adverse effects , Captopril/adverse effects , Aged , Humans , Hypertension/drug therapy , MaleABSTRACT
This paper presents a case, infrequent and clinically unsuspected, of pleomorphic adenoma in the upper region of the neck in front of the sternocleidomastoid, independent of the salivary glands. The tumor developed within an heterotopic salivary gland of seromucose type, the histopathologic study of the surgical piece being decisive in the diagnosis. The characteristics of salivary heterotopias of the neck, and their diagnostic difficulties and histogenetic problems are reviewed.
