A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue
Dysphagia represents a difficulty in passage of solid or liquid foods from the oral cavity into the stomach and is considered as an alarm symptom of gastrointestinal system. It often indicates an organic disease and needs to be explained. In this paper, a case of 61-year-old man with posterior tongu...
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| author | Gulsum Teke Ozgur Mehmet Volkan Akdogan Gulhan Kanat Unler Huseyin Savas Gokturk |
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| description | Dysphagia represents a difficulty in passage of solid or liquid foods from the oral cavity into the stomach and is considered as an alarm symptom of gastrointestinal system. It often indicates an organic disease and needs to be explained. In this paper, a case of 61-year-old man with posterior tongue abscess is presented. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a4320b92b7864c06aa6c20d75aba0fd92022-12-22T03:56:58ZengHindawi LimitedCase Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine2090-65282090-65362015-01-01201510.1155/2015/431738431738A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the TongueGulsum Teke Ozgur0Mehmet Volkan Akdogan1Gulhan Kanat Unler2Huseyin Savas Gokturk3Department of Family Medicine, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Konya, TurkeyBaskent University Faculty of Medicine, Konya, TurkeyDepartment of Gastroenterology, Baskent University, Hoca Cihan Mah Saray Caddesi, No. 1, Selcuklu, 42080 Konya, TurkeyDepartment of Gastroenterology, Baskent University, Hoca Cihan Mah Saray Caddesi, No. 1, Selcuklu, 42080 Konya, TurkeyDysphagia represents a difficulty in passage of solid or liquid foods from the oral cavity into the stomach and is considered as an alarm symptom of gastrointestinal system. It often indicates an organic disease and needs to be explained. In this paper, a case of 61-year-old man with posterior tongue abscess is presented.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/431738 |
| spellingShingle | Gulsum Teke Ozgur Mehmet Volkan Akdogan Gulhan Kanat Unler Huseyin Savas Gokturk A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine |
| title | A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue |
| title_full | A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue |
| title_fullStr | A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue |
| title_short | A Rare Cause of Acute Dysphagia: Abscess of the Base of the Tongue |
| title_sort | rare cause of acute dysphagia abscess of the base of the tongue |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/431738 |
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