? some 4 months ago. A small sore resulted, which, instead of healing, has gone on steadily increasing in size. There is a good deal of shooting pain, difficulty in speaking and swallowing, and much distress generally. On admission into the Medical College Hospital a few days ago a large epithelioma with cracked fungating base and indurated everted edges was seen occupying the right side of ton...

Lingual thyroid (LT) is a rare developmental thyroid anomaly usually affecting. Although the exact pathogenesis of this ectopic, accessory thyroid tissue is not known, it generally originates from epithelial tissue of non-obliterated thyroglossal ductus. In this report, a case of lingual thyroid in a 45- year old male patient with difficulty in breathing and swallowing complaints for five years...

BACKGROUND Ankyloglossia or tongue-tie is a congenital anomaly characterized by an abnormally short lingual frenum. Its prevalence in the newborn population is approximately 4%. Its mode of inheritance has been studied in some articles, but no conclusion has been established. Also, no relevant report has been published in Korea. This study was conducted to elucidate the genetic inheritance of a...

on passing a probe through this hole it was found to be quite a separate passage opening into the rnaiB urethra about 1A inches above the meatus, from whic^ it was separated by a thin septum. It appeared that the septum was united above with the roof of tk? urethra and did not allow the passage of urine through the meatus. On the previous day, it was the septic* which had offered resistance to ...

Disease agents that principally target the tongue are relatively rare. It seems that type of food and roughage play an important role to predispose the animals to lingual ulcers. During a period of four years different aspects of cattle lingual fossa ulcer were studied in a semi-industrial dairy farm in Tehran. The affected animals showed various stages of ulcer formation in their lingual fossa...