Case 6-2010: A 37-year-old man with a lesion on the tongue

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 362, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Flynn, Thomas R ^a,c   Hunter, George J ^b,c   Johnson, Matthew M ^b,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CEFALEXIN; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; APHTHOUS ULCER; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; GLOSSODYNIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MOUTH ULCER; ORAL SYPHILIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; POISON IVY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; REAGIN TEST; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYPHILIS; TONGUE ULCER; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST; APHTHOUS STOMATITIS; BIOPSY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TONGUE; TONGUE DISEASE;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHANCRE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; HUMANS; MALE; ORAL ULCER; STOMATITIS, APHTHOUS; SYPHILIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TONGUE; TONGUE DISEASES;

EID: 77349105562     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc0910089     Document Type: Article

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