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[Oral Langerhans cell granulomatosis simulating necrotizing gingivostomatitis]
R Zimmermann1, K Rutsatz, B Stengel
1Dermatologische Klinik und Poliklinik, Universität Rostock.
Mund-, Kiefer- Und Gesichtschirurgie : MKG
|May 6, 1998
Abstract:
An unusual case of nonhealing necrotizing gingivostomatitis in a 66-year-old man is described. Microscopic examination of biopsy material showed an infiltrate of Langerhans cells. Merely oral lesions of Langerhans cell granulomatosis--especially in an old person--occur very seldom.