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Fissured and geographic tongue in Williams-Beuren syndrome

Author(s) -

Neeta Sharma,

Reet Kamal

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of orofacial sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171

H-Index - 6

eISSN - 2320-4737

pISSN - 0975-8844

DOI - 10.4103/0975-8844.143059

Subject(s) - williams syndrome , tongue , medicine , anatomy , pathology , psychiatry , cognition

Williams-Beuren Syndrome (WBS) is a rare, most often sporadic, genetic disease caused by a chromosomal microdeletion at locus 7q11.23 involving 28 genes. It is characterized by congenital heart defects, neonatal hypercalcemia, skeletal and renal abnormalities, cognitive disorder, social personality disorder, and dysmorphic facies. A number of clinical findings has been reported, but none of the studies evaluated this syndrome considering oral cavity. We here report a fissured and geographic tongue in association with WBS

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