title: Noma.
abstract: We report a case of noma in a debilitated 71-year-old white man. Predisposing factors included malnutrition, preleukemic syndrome, and occult renal adenocarcinoma. The superior third of the patient's lower lip was destroyed before he died.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D009625:Noma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000150:complications; D011289:Preleukemia / Q000150:complications