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| Year : 2013 |
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Unusual complication of dental extraction: Lingual abscess
Lalee Varghese, Pratibha Agarwal, Vedantam Rupa
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
Correspondence Address:
Lalee Varghese
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Christian Medical College, Vellore
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0970-9290.127633
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Acute lingual swelling is a potentially life threatening clinical condition which is encountered very rarely, the differential diagnosis of which includes hemorrhage, infarction, abscess, tumor and edema. Herein we report a case of lingual abscess that presented with acute tongue swelling and respiratory distress after extraction of lower two incisor teeth. |
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