Deformity of the tongue in an infant: Riga-Fede disease
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Riga Fede Disease
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A 4-day-old male baby presented with congenitally erupted two teeth on lower jaw since birth resulting in difficulty in breast feeding. Oral examination showed ulceratio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Paediatrics & Child Health
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1205-7088,1918-1485
DOI: 10.1093/pch/15.9.581