1. MACROGLOSSIA AND AFONIA ASSOCIATED WITH BURKITT’S LYMPHOMA: CASE REPORT
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Fabiana Menezes Teixeira de Carvalho, Gustavo Pina Godoy, Maria Gabriela Lima Barbosa Monteiro, Andressa Kelly Alves Ferreira, Thais Aquino Moreira de Sousa, Fabiana Moura Da Motta Silveira, and Kaline Maria Maciel De Oliveira
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medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Respiratory infection ,Retropharyngeal abscess ,medicine.disease ,Gastrostomy ,Intensive care unit ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Surgery ,law.invention ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Tongue ,law ,Biopsy ,medicine ,Macroglossia ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Dentistry (miscellaneous) ,Oral Surgery ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Burkitt's lymphoma - Abstract
A 17-year-old male sought countryside hospital with throat pain and afebrile for 8 days, being prescribed cephalexin. Due to worsening of clinical condition with lingual protrusion and progressive loss of voice, he returned other times to the service, when he was referred for health center. He was transferred to emergency care unit and conducted to capital hospital for drainage of retropharyngeal abscess. Patient presented dyspnea, initiating treatment with dexamethasone, with clinical improvement of the tumor, but when suspended, the tumor grew up. He was transferred to intensive care unit and submitted to a computed tomography of skull, tracheostomy, gastrostomy, and excisional biopsy of the lesion that occupied all the oropharynx. He presented cardiorespiratory arrest, seizures, and respiratory infection. Results of biopsy and immunohistochemistry diagnosed Burkitt’s lymphoma. Patient was submitted to chemotherapy with regression of the lesion and return the tongue to the normal conditions.
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- 2020
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