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A Blanco Carrión

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Anaesthesia of the right lower hemilip as a first manifestation of multiple myeloma. Presentation of a clinical case.

Multiple myeloma is a malignant proliferation of plasma cells. It may affect any of various bones, causing osteolytic lesions with a characteristic "punched out" radiographic appearance. The commonest symptom is bone pain. One of the most frequent locations is the mandible. Symptoms of multiple myeloma of the mandible include tumefaction, non-specific pain, tooth mobility and sometimes loss, and paraesthesia of the dental nerve. Here we report a case of multiple myeloma of the mandible which was unusual in that the presenting complaint was anaesthesia of the right lower hemilip.

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Cellular immune alterations in fifty-two patients with oral lichen planus.

OBJECTIVES: Abnormal immune mechanisms appear to play an important role in the pathogenesis of lichen planus (LP). DESIGN: A prospective clinical study was made to investigate the differences in T cell subpopulations in 52 patients with oral lichen planus (OLP) and 54 healthy controls. RESULTS: Statistically significant differences were observed among the OLP patients versus the controls: the percentages of CD3+, CD8+, DR+, CD57+ and CD8CD45RA+ cells were depressed, while elevations were recorded in the subpopulations expressing CD4+, and in the ratios CD4/CD8+ and CD8CD45RO+/CD8CD45RA+. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest the existence of differences in the lymphocyte subpopulations between healthy subjects and patients with OLP. These findings do not coincide with the previously published observations, however; the observed cellular immune alterations thus appear to relate more to lymphocyte reaction capacity than to the actual number of cells in each population subgroup.

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