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  • Title: Tongue necrosis as a complication of temporal arteritis.
    Author: Llorente Pendás S, De Vicente Rodríguez JC, González García M, Junquera Gutierrez LM, López Arranz JS.
    Journal: Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol; 1994 Oct; 78(4):448-51. PubMed ID: 7800375.
    Abstract:
    Tongue necrosis is a rare complication in giant cell arteritis, an entity in which both temporal arteritis and rheumatic polymyalgia may be included as two different manifestations of the same pathologic process. The case of a 79-year-old patient who had tongue necrosis 3 hours after ingestion of 2 mg of ergotamine tartrate is presented. This complication was the basis for the diagnosis of temporal arteritis. We reviewed possible clinical manifestations of temporal arteritis and cases of tongue necrosis in the world literature. The possible existence of triggering factors that seemed to be present in 11 of the published cases was analyzed. In seven of these cases ingestion of ergotamine derivates had taken place.
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