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Numb chin syndrome.
CLINICAL HISTORY This 67-year-old man was seen in neurological consultation with a 10-day history of numbness and tingling of the right chin which was intermittent for the first 3 days and then constant for one week. The chin could also be intermittently painful with an intensity ranging from 7 to 9/10 especially with chewing. He had no headache, speech disturbance, dysphagia, visual disturbanc...
متن کاملNumb chin syndrome.
Numb chin syndrome reflects an abnormality in the mental nerve or inferior alveolar nerve, or occasionally in a nervous structure located higher up in the body. It manifests as objective and/or subjective sensory disorders in the distribution of the mental nerve or inferior alveolar nerve, represented primarily by half of the lower lip and chin. Although numb chin syndrome falls mainly within t...
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Numb chin syndrome is a sensory neuropathy of the inferior alveolar branch of the trigeminal nerve, characterized by unilateral numbness of the chin, the lower lip and the buccal and gingival mucosa. We report a girl with acute lymphoblastic leukemia of B-cell type who initially presented with numb chin syndrome resulting from skull base infiltration.
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UNLABELLED Metastatic deposits in the mandible are discussed and a case of leiomyosarcoma arising from a testicular primary is presented. The patient presented with symptoms typical of those that would present to a general dental practitioner. The various stages involved in the diagnosis and management of the condition are discussed. CLINICAL RELEVANCE Intra-oral malignant secondary tumours m...
متن کاملNumb chin syndrome as the presenting symptom of carcinomatous meningitis.
The numb chin syndrome (NCS) is a rare neurological condition which origins in the absence of a dental cause and is most often associated with malignancy [1–5]. Patients develop orofacial paraesthesia typically localized to the chin and lower lip. We present a series of four female patients (mean age = 66.2 years) who had been diagnosed with breast cancer and were complaining of orofacial numbn...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.53.2.173