MANDIBULAR NERVE NEUROPATHY IN SICKLE-CELL DISEASE - LOCAL FACTORS

Authors
GREGORY G OLUJOHUNGBE A
Citation
G. Gregory et A. Olujohungbe, MANDIBULAR NERVE NEUROPATHY IN SICKLE-CELL DISEASE - LOCAL FACTORS, Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, 77(1), 1994, pp. 66-69
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Pathology,Surgery,"Dentistry,Oral Surgery & Medicine
Journal title
Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304220
Volume
77
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
66 - 69
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4220(1994)77:1<66:MNNISD>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
An instance of permanent neuropathy that affected the mandibular nerve after a vaso-occlusive crisis in a patient with homozygous sickle cel l disease and G6PD deficiency. A local factor of molar periapical infl ammation may have provoked this phenomenon.