In previous French Cued Speech (CS) studies, one of the widely used methods is painting blue color on the speaker’s lips to make lips feature extraction easier. In this paper, in order to get rid of this artifice, a novel automatic method to extract the inner lips contour of CS speakers is presented. This method is based on a recent facial contour extraction model developed in computer vision, ...

Keratoacanthoma (KA) is a self-limited benign epithelial proliferative lesion that eventually presents with very similar clinical features to squamous cell carcinoma. Many KA appear in the vermilion border of the lips and therefore dental professionals must be familiar of the disease. This article reports the case of a 40-year-old female patient presenting with an exophytic ulcerative tumor in ...

Oral cancer refers to all malignancies that arise in the oral cavity, lips and pharynx, with 90% of all oral cancers being oral squamous cell carcinoma. Despite the recent treatment advances, oral cancer is reported as having one of the highest mortality ratios amongst other malignancies and this can much be attributed to the late diagnosis of the disease. Saliva has long been tested as a valua...

B asal cell carcinoma (BCC) involving the vermilion border and mucosal surface of the lips is rare, whereas these sites are more frequently involved by squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). The epithelium of the lip is divided into 4 regions: the skin; the vermilion border; the outer mucosa (vermilion); and the inner mucosa. The vermilion border contains the orbicularis oris muscle without a subcutane...

Oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) represents 90% to 95% of all malignant neoplasms of the oral cavity. It is classically regarded as an adult disease entity and has a high correlation with alcohol and tobacco consumption.1 Oral SCC occurs in several well established intraoral sites, including the floor of mouth, tongue (most common), gingiva, lips, and buccal mucosa. It might also present in t...

Peutz Jegher’s syndrome is a mucocutaneous autosomal dominant condition associated with extensive melanin pigmentation and intestinal hamartomatous polyp formation. It is characterised by round, oval patches of blackish brown pigmentation, irregularly distributed over the oral mucosa, lips, tongue and the hard palate. This condition is associated with an increased risk towards carcinoma and sev...

OBJECTIVE To report a case of rectal cancer in a patient with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS). CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 20-year-old woman with intermittent bloody stool of 4 months was admitted for examination. Gastroendoscopy revealed multiple polyps involving the stomach, small intestine, colon and a rectal adenocarcinoma. A diagnosis of PJS was made based on intestinal polyps ...

Paraneoplastic syndromes are generally defined as clinical disorders associated with malignant diseases, and hypocalcemia associated with cancer is a rare condition. A woman in her 60s was referred to our hospital for the further examination of massive ascites due to carcinoma of unknown primary origin. She complained of numbness around her lips, and marked hypocalcemia of 5.0 mg/dL was noted. ...