Department of Oral Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
Amyloid. 2010 Mar;17(1):27-31. doi: 10.3109/13506121003619351.
Oral amyloidosis is usually presented in the tongue and is often associated with multiple myeloma. We present three patients with unusual oral manifestations of primary amyloidosis, which to the best of our knowledge have not been previously published. In two cases the oral manifestation was overt at the time of diagnosis and all cases ended in patient mortality. Since these oral manifestations can contribute to the diagnosis of systemic amyloidosis, clinicians should be made aware of them. Future research should assess the significance of oral manifestation as a prognostic indicator.
口腔淀粉样变通常表现为舌部病变,常与多发性骨髓瘤相关。我们报告了 3 例原发性淀粉样变的口腔不典型表现,据我们所知,这些表现此前尚未发表过。在 2 例病例中,口腔表现于诊断时即已明显,所有病例的患者均死亡。由于这些口腔表现有助于系统性淀粉样变的诊断,临床医生应该了解这些表现。未来的研究应评估口腔表现作为预后指标的意义。