Macroglossia
| Classification according to ICD-10 | |
|---|---|
| K14.8 | Other diseases of the tongue - hypertrophy - enlargement |
| Q38.2 | Macroglossia (congenital) |
| ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) | |
In medicine, macroglossia refers to a partial or complete enlargement of the tongue .
causes
Macroglossia can have different causes. Among other things, there are:
- Tumors: hemangioma , lymphangioma , carcinoma
- Infections: thrush , tongue abscess , actinomycosis
- Allergies: Quincke's edema
- Endocrine disorders: acromegaly , hypothyroidism
- Storage diseases: amyloidosis , amyloidosis type Lubarsch-Pick , hyalinosis , Pompe disease , mucopolysaccharidosis
- genetic causes: e.g. B. Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome , Cornelia de Lange syndrome , Duchenne muscular dystrophy , Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome
- Toothlessness: in jaws that have not been fitted with full dentures for a longer period of time .
Concomitant symptoms
A sudden enlargement of the tongue is usually noticed quickly by the affected person. The mass in the oral cavity leads to speech, swallowing and occlusion disorders . With high magnification, the closure of the mouth can be impaired, in extreme cases even breathing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernfried Leiber (founder): The clinical syndromes. Syndromes, sequences and symptom complexes . Ed .: G. Burg, J. Kunze, D. Pongratz, PG Scheurlen, A. Schinzel, J. Spranger. 7., completely reworked. Edition. tape 2 : symptoms . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-541-01727-9 .
| This text is based in whole or in part on the entry Macroglossia in Flexikon , a wiki from DocCheck . The takeover took place on July 8, 2004 under the then valid GNU license for free documentation . |