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Nutrition
June 2023
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Shizuoka General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan.
A 76-y-old Japanese man who had undergone gastrectomy 4.5 y earlier experienced 2 wk of sore throat, heartburn, and difficulty swallowing. Endoscopy showed deep, craterlike, longitudinal ulcers in the lower and middle esophagus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdv Gerontol
November 2022
S.M.Kirov Military Medical Academy, 6 Akademik Lebedev str., St. Petersburg 194044, Russian Federation, e-mail:
Glossodynia is a disease that is difficult to diagnose and treat. Persons of older age groups are in the most risk of its occurrence. This is due to the fact that its etiological factors are: age-related changes, general somatic diseases, usage of some pharmacological drugs, changes in the psycho-emotional background.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDermatologie (Heidelb)
September 2022
Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Katar.
Glossodynia or orofacial pain disorder is known as burning mouth syndrome. It is a therapeutic challenge. Its etiology is not well defined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ Case Rep
April 2022
Orofacial Pain Clinic, Department of Oral Medicine and Oral Surgery, Hopital Bretonneau, AP-HP, Paris, France
A woman in her late 80s with severe bronchomalacia was referred to a tertiary orofacial pain clinic for unexplained right unilateral glossodynia of progressive and continuous evolution for the past 8 months, spreading to the ipsilateral labiomental region, associated with ipsilateral hypoacusia. Local and general clinical examinations were unremarkable and routine blood work could not reveal any underlying systemic disease explaining the glossodynia and burning/pricking labiomental pain. Suspecting a painful trigeminal neuropathy secondary to a space-occupying lesion, a cerebral MRI was prescribed, revealing an ipsilateral cerebellopontine angle lesion, compatible with either a schwannoma or meningioma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Case Rep
September 2020
Department of Psychiatry, Kyoto University Hospital, 54 Kawahara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan.
Background: Lithium carbonate is widely used as a first-line therapeutic agent for the depressive and manic phases of bipolar disorder. Although limb tremors and hypothyroidism are well-known side effects of lithium carbonate, other rare adverse reactions can also occur.
Case Presentation: A 53-year-old Japanese woman diagnosed with lithium intoxication developed dysgeusia and glossalgia during treatment with lithium carbonate.
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