Oral herpetic lesions in an edentulous patient.
This article reports a case of oral herpetic lesions that recurred several times over 1 1/2 years in an edentulous 65-year-old woman. The patient was under treatment for complete dentures at the New Jersey Dental School. A differential diagnosis of mucosal ulcerative lesions is described, along with the laboratory methodology for confirmation of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection.
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University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark.
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D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009066:Mouth, Edentulous / Q000150:complications; D013283:Stomatitis, Herpetic / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*