Volume 17, Number 3, September 2005
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Shinji Tanabe, Yasuro Yoshimura, Koichi Mishima
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Shimane University School of Medicine, Izumo City, Shimane, Japan
Abstract
This report is of an 83-year-old woman with a history of hypertension who had recurrent swelling of the tongue, oral floor, and lower lip. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor therapy was strongly suspected to be the cause of the swelling. Discontinuation of therapy resulted in disappearance of the swelling without recurrence.
Key words: Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, Bradykinin, Edema, Hypertension, Oral manifestations
Asian J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2005;17:183-185.
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