Protocol for managing acute cancrum oris in children: an experience in five cases.

Penicillin in Cancrum Oris Complicating Kala-Azar *The work reported in this paper was undertaken under the Endowment Fund of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, aided by a grant from the Indian Research Fund Association.

Cancrum oris is the most classical and the most fatal complication of kala-azar. Previous to the introduction of the specific treatment with the antimonials, cancrum oris was the terminal event in a large proportion of cases. The incidence of this fatal complication decreased very considerably with the adoption of the specific treatment with the antimonials during the last twenty-five years or ...

Cancrum Oris-associated with Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Forgotten Disease

Cancrum oris is an orofacial gangrene, which during its fulminating course causes, progressive and mutilating destruction of the infected tissues with a consortium of microorganisms. This condition is considered to represent the “face of poverty” because factors connected with poverty, such as chronic malnutrition, poor oral hygiene and sanitation, faecal contamination, and exposure to viral an...

Cancrum Oris - a Descriptive Case Series on 13 Patients

Objectives: To evaluate the age, gender, site distribution and associated systemic debelitating conditions (if any) of the patients with Cancrum Oris. Methodology: A descriptive retrospective study was undertaken in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery unit of Khyber College of Dentistry from January 2005 to January 2010. Information regarding the variables of the study i.e., age, gender, site di...

A Case of Acute Malarial Poisoning, Enteric Fever Ensuing. Complicated by Brain and Lung Symptoms, Also by Extensive Cancrum Oris

Cancrum Oris in a Monkey Infected with Leishmania Donovani

The object of this note is to {Macaca rence of cancrum oris m a 0ccairus). It is believed that tins occlirred sion on which this compnca Leishin an experimental animal mie mania donovani. ? ... ^nnVey is that The previous history of thw . fectkm jn the ^ had been given a malaria g Napier scries of experiments reported necesand Campbell (1932) and that ai obtained, sary data regarding malaria ^ ...