(1) It is suggested that the results indicate the need for full haematological screening of all patients with recurrent aphthae.
(2) Topical IFN alpha 2C seems to be effective in the treatment of the aphthae in Behcet's syndrome.
(3) Oral aphtha appeared again on February 1988 followed by resistant fever to antibiotics and right hemiparesis.
(4) Viruses may possibly be associated with recurrent aphthae, Behçet's syndrome, and some dermatoses.
(5) Patients were examined for the presence of hairy leukoplakia, candidiasis, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, aphthae, atypical gingivitis, HIV-associated periodontitis, and necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis, as well as other oral lesions, every 3 months for a maximum of four examinations over a 1-year period.
(6) A treatment guide for management of recurrent aphthae is presented.
(7) We present a 56-year-old patient with episodes of recurrent abdominal pain and constitutional syndrome, whose evolution was complicated by mucous ulcers in mouth, esophagus, anus and ileocecal valve, as well as occasional aphthae in scrotum.
(8) High fever, aphtha of the mouth, erythema of the lower extremities and genital ulcers were, however, frequently observed.
(9) Colonic or ileo-colonic lesions develop after several years of recurrent aphthae and are manifested by acute complications, such as perforation or massive haemorrhage, or by protracted haemorrhagic diarrhoea with progressive deterioration of the patient's general condition.
(10) Clinical examination of the aphthae was not helpful in identifying individual patients with a nutritional deficiency although patients with an associated glossitis or angular cheilitis were more likely to suffer from such deficiencies.
(11) The lesions resembled oral aphthae clinically, were recurrent and left a scar tissue like genital ulcers but were located extragenitally.
(12) We studied the clinical characteristics of 93 patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS); 66 corresponded to minor aphthae (MiRAS), 20 to major aphthae (MaRAS), and 7 to herpes-like ulcerations (HU).
(13) He had had intermittent episodes of joint pains, erythema nodosum-like eruptions of the lower limbs, oral aphtha, and a fever lasting for three years.
(14) A cytopathogenic organism (classified as herpes virus hominis) could be cultivated from the aphtha sample from only one patient.
(15) The use of a disinfectant for mouth rinsing, the removal of foci as well as vitamin treatment are recommended for preventing recurrent aphthae.
(16) The inflammatory lesions in all cases were preanastomotic, in the neoterminal ileum, and showed time related progression from aphthae to larger ulcers and stricture.
(17) Among 240 patients with Behçet's disease seen in the Internal Medicine Department of the Ibnou Rochd University Hospital, Casablanca, between January 1981 and April 1988, 44 were selected to study the effects of desensitization by autologous saliva on oral and genital aphthae and on articular manifestations.
(18) Aphthae were the commonest oral complication (4.3%) and fissures and fistula the more prevalent perianal ones (4.3% and 3.4%).
(19) Oral aphthae were recorded in 98% of the patients, genital ulcers in 55.1%, and skin lesions in 51%.
(20) A series of 330 patients with recurrent aphthae was screened for deficiencies of iron, folate and vitamin B12.
Aphthous
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or caused by, aphthae; characterized by aphtae; as, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results showed that anti-ECA were detected in 54% (34 of 63) of patients with OLP, 71% (15 of 21) of patients with aphthous ulcers, 29% (6 of 21) of patients with oral carcinoma, 20% (2 of 10) of patients with traumatic ulcer, and 7% (1 of 15) of patients with periodontitis but none of the healthy control subjects (n = 41).
(2) The lesions of recurrent aphthous stomatitis can be manifested as part of a broad spectrum of clinical disease ranging from the common minor aphthous ulcers to Behçet's syndrome.
(3) Clinical trials with a cross-over double-blind technique were undertaken to test chlortetracycline (Aureomycin) and the enzyme-containing dentifrice Zendium with regard to therapeutic effects on recurrent aphthous ulcers.
(4) The same study has been performed in clinically normal mucosa of patients with aphthous ulcers, normal mucosa of healthy volunteers and traumatically induced ulcers.
(5) The aetiology of recurrent aphthous ulceration (RAU) is not known with certainty.
(6) Vitamin B1, B2 and B6 deficiencies should, therefore, be considered as another possible precipitating factor in recurrent aphthous ulceration.
(7) The major criteria comprise the ocular involvement, aphthous ulcers of the oral mucous membrane, genital ulcers, and skin lesions.
(8) Aphthous ulcers were found in 2% of a total of 20,333 individuals aged 15 years or more examined in urban, suburban, and rural regions of Sweden.
(9) Behçet's syndrome is characterized by the recurrent ulceration of the genitals, aphthous lesions of the mouth, uveitis, or iridocyclitis followed by hypopyon.
(10) It was administered in a flexible dosage schedule: 50 mg. three times daily for three consecutive days at the start of an aphthous lesion but with an interval of at least 2 weeks between courses of therapy.
(11) Nine patients had erosive lichen planus, one had benign mucous membrane pemphigoid, three had pemphigus vulgaris, seven had persistent major recurrent aphthous stomatitis, and four had chronic oral erythema multiforme.
(12) We report a patient with pseudomembranous colitis with aphthous ulceration demonstrated by barium examination.
(13) The cells are found in scrapings from the area around the labial fold of the lower lip and are most commonly found in abundance in people with active aphthous ulcers.
(14) In the 13 control specimens [bullous pemphigoid (3), dermatitis herpetiformis (2), lichen planus (1), aphthous ulcer (1), fixed-drug eruption (1), varicella-zoster (1), hypereosinophilic syndrome (1), photocontact dermatitis (1), contact dermatitis (1), and cellulitis (1)], no HSV-DNA was detected.
(15) The sandwich variant of EIA, carried out with the use of antibodies labeled with alkaline phosphatase, has been shown to be 4-170 times, sometimes 500 times, more sensitive (in terms of concentrations at which aphthous fever virus antigens can be detected) than the complement fixation test and 1.8-64 times more sensitive than the passive hemagglutination test.
(16) A significant decrease in the pH of saliva has been detected in patients with recurrent aphthous ulcers (RAU).
(17) Correction of underlying conditions or deficiencies results in improvement or remission in aphthous disease activity.
(18) This study was conducted to characterize the recurrent aphthous ulcers (RAU) found in association with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, to examine evidence for increased severity of the ulcers with HIV disease, and to determine whether increased severity is associated with abnormalities of peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets.
(19) The colonoscopic findings in 11 patients with early tuberculous colitis included erythema alone in 1 patient (9.1%), mucosal nodules indistinguishable from small adenoma in 8 (72.7%), aphthous ulcers in 3 (27.3%), and a deformed ileocaecal valve in 3 (27.3%).
(20) The effect of topical recombinant interferon alfa 2c hydrogel (IFN alpha 2C) in the aphthous lesions of the mouth in Behcet's syndrome was assessed in twenty patients in a twelve-week open trial.