aphtha

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aphtha

[‚af·thə]

(medicine)

White, painful oral ulcer of unknown cause.

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The survey suggests an important correlation between stress, spicy foods and oral ulcer ulceration.

FREQUENCY OF APTHOUS ULCERS - A STUDY

Behcet's disease is a chronic autoimmune vasculitic disease that presents most often as oral ulcers, papulopustular skin lesions, genital ulcers, uveitis, and/or arthritis.

DLX105 is a novel treatment strategy for Behcet's

THE EFFECTS OF LOW POWER LASERS IN HEALING OF ORAL ULCERS.

Pain Relief of Aphthous Ulcers by Lasers: A Literature Review

The patients' ages, duration of the disease, family history, presence of oral ulcers, genital ulcers, erythema nodosum, acneiform eruptions, epididymitis, arthralgia and arthritis, and vascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, neurological, and ophthalmic involvement were recorded.

Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio in Behcet's disease as a marker of disease activity

1) However, the presence of 2 main symptoms of Behcet's disease, namely the oral ulcers and skin lesions, and additional symptoms of arthritis and arthralgia along with vascular lesions, fulfilled the criteria for an incomplete type of Behcet's disease.

An unusual case of an anterior mediastinal mass

Certain rare manifestations like lymphodenopathy, oral ulcers and encephalitis were also seen.

Clinical profile of chikungunya fever in patients in a tertiary care centre in Maharashtra, India

Thus, the relation of ABH antigens in oral ulcer patients with BD may be critical.

ABO blood groups, rhesus factor, and behet's disease

For this present case, the classification criteria of SLE were fulfilled by neurological symptoms, rash, oral ulcer, pancytopenia, proteinuria, positive anti-DNA antibody, and positive ANA.

Systemic lupus erythematosus presenting with status epilepticus: a case report / Status epileptikus ile birlikte seyreden sistemik lupus eritematozus: olgu sunumu

Improvement in the lesions and resolution of an oral ulcer were reported by the parents at the assessment.

Local transmission of imported endemic syphilis, Canada, 2011

Oropharyngeal lesions were seen in 21% of patients with oesophageal ulceration but this was only predictive of the aetiology of the oesophageal lesion in patients with idiopathic ulcers; however, only 16% of our idiopathic ulcer group had a simultaneous oral ulcer.

Oesophageal ulceration in HIV-infected patients

The most common symptoms of primary HIV infection are fever, rash, oral ulcer, and sore throat.

Risk assessment is key in acute HIV infection. (Beware of False Positives)

EPIEN") announced today that it has commenced OTC distribution of its new oral ulcer treatment product, ORALMEDIC[R] Barrier Solution, in Canada.