Specimen of Congenital MacRoglossia

Surgical Treatment of Congenital True Macroglossia

Macroglossia is a morphological and volumetric alteration of the tongue, caused by muscular hypertrophy, vascular malformation, metabolic diseases, and idiopathic causes and also associated with Down and Beckwith-Wiedemann syndromes. This alteration can cause dental-muscle-skeletal deformities, orthodontic instability, masticatory problems, and alterations in the taste and speech. In this paper...

Chromosomal abnormality associated with congenital macroglossia and other abnormalities.

Armendares, S., Buentello, L., Salamanca, F., and Cantu-Garza, J. M. (1972). A dicentric Y chromosome without evidence of sex chromosomal mosaicism, 46,XYqdic, in a patient with features of Turner's syndrome. Journal of Medical Genetics, 9, 96-100. Caspersson, T., Lomakka, G., and Zech, L. (1971). The 24 fluorescence patterns of the human metaphase chromosomes-distinguishing characters and vari...

A Case of Macroglossia

[Lymphangiomatous macroglossia: report of a case].

患 者:■,1才10カ 月,女 性. 初 診:昭 和45年3月 ■ 日. 主 訴:舌 肥大に よる摂食障害, 家族歴:両 親には特記すべき事項を認めない.患 者の 兄は双生児で妊娠8カ 月の 出生で,生 後間 もな く両者 と もに死亡,姉 は健康である. 既往歴:正 常分娩で生下時体重3,050gで,栄 養は混 合栄養で生後著患は認め られない. 現病歴:出 生時,す でに舌の肥大が認め られ,口 腔外 1に舌尖が突出し,そ の後発育に伴 って緩除に舌も大 き く な り,来 院約4カ 月前頃 よ り風邪に羅患 し,そ の時 よ り, 口腔外に突出した部分が,急 に発赤,腫 脹を きた し疼痛 を訴 えるようにな り,固 形物をほ とんど摂取できず,某 内科医 よ り当院に紹介され て来院 した. 現 症:体 格,栄 養共にやや悪 く,体 重は9kgで, 特 に下半身の発育が悪 く...

Neurofibromatosis presenting as macroglossia.

Joyce K., aged 6, is the tenth of 12 children. The remainder of the family are healthy and there is no family history of any condition suggesting neurofibromatosis. Birth was normal and infancy uneventful, but the mother noticed a large and slightly protruding tongue when she first saw the child a few hours after birth. She had gastro-enteritis at 6 months, but apart from this had no serious il...