Primary tuberculosis masquerading as gingival enlargement
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Primary tuberculosis clinically presenting as gingival enlargement: a case report.
Tuberculosis is a chronic systemic granulomatous disease which rarely affects the oral cavity. Oral lesions can be either primary or secondary to systemic tuberculosis, the former being rare. This is a never-before reported case of primary tuberculosis presenting as a localized diffuse gingival enlargement in an 11-year-old Indian female patient. The diagnosis was reached through identification...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Dental Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0007-0610,1476-5373
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.344