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Case Reports
. 1995 Nov;84(11):1333-6.
doi: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1995.tb13563.x.

Tongue necrosis due to vasculitis

B M Ekman-Joelsson  1 , B Kjellman, G Hattevig
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Case Reports

Tongue necrosis due to vasculitis

B M Ekman-Joelsson et al. Acta Paediatr. 1995 Nov.

Abstract

We describe a 7-year-old boy with necrosis of the tongue due to a generalized vasculitis, with symptoms and signs consistent with periarteritis nodosa and appearing after an infection with streptococci. Approximately one-third of the tongue had to be extirpated.

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