A 65-Year-Old Woman with an Enlarged Tongue Due to Amyloidosis

Hani H. Mawardi; Sara K. Akeel; Sarah Alfarabi Ali; Lena S. Elbadawi; Soulafa A. Almazrooa

doi:10.12659/AJCR.936192

13 June 2022 : Case report Saudi Arabia

A 65-Year-Old Woman with an Enlarged Tongue Due to Amyloidosis

Unusual clinical course, Challenging differential diagnosis, Unusual or unexpected effect of treatment, Educational Purpose (only if useful for a systematic review or synthesis), Rare coexistence of disease or pathology

Hani H. Mawardi^1ABDEF*, Sara K. Akeel^1BDEF, Sarah Alfarabi Ali

^1CDEF, Lena S. Elbadawi^2CDEF, Soulafa A. Almazrooa^1ABDEF

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.936192

Am J Case Rep 2022; 23:e936192

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Figure 1. Clinical images of the tongue showing normal covering mucosa with macroglossia almost filling the oral cavity with dental indentation (A, B); and mandibular labial mucosa with normal covering epithelium and raised-thick surface due to amyloid deposition (C).

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