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Mandibular nerve neuropathy in sickle cell disease. Local factors
1Eastman Dental Hospital, London, England.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
An instance of permanent neuropathy that affected the mandibular nerve after a vaso-occlusive crisis in a patient with homozygous sickle cell disease and G6PD deficiency. A local factor of molar periapical inflammation may have provoked this phenomenon.