Tongue necrosis and systemic vascular amyloidosis

James R. Lin; He Wang; A. Bernard Collins; James R. Stone

doi:10.1016/j.humpath.2010.08.011

Tongue necrosis and systemic vascular amyloidosis

James R. Lin
, He Wang
, A. Bernard Collins
, James R. Stone

Pathology

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Abstract

Tongue necrosis is a rare but dramatic clinical finding, which is most often related to infection, trauma, malignancy, or vasculitis. We describe an extremely unusual case in which systemic amyloid deposition in small arteries caused by senile systemic amyloidosis was associated with necrosis of the tongue as well as necrosis of portions of the bowel. To our knowledge, this is the first report of ischemic tongue necrosis resulting from vascular amyloidosis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	734-737
Number of pages	4
Journal	Human Pathology
Volume	42
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humpath.2010.08.011
State	Published - May 2011

Keywords

Amyloidosis
Giant cell arteritis
Macroglossia
Tongue necrosis

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