Abstract
Angiokeratoma is a muco-cutaneous disorder that is usually associated with a number of metabolic disorders. Involvement of the tongue with solitary angiokeratoma, without a systemic or metabolic disease, is very rare. To the best of our knowledge, we report the second case of solitary angiokeratoma of the tongue arising in a 16-year-old woman who was treated with diode laser (810 nm) in our department.
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This case was partially presented as poster presentation at the 12th Congress of the BaSS, 12–14 April 2007, Istanbul, under the auspices of the Balkan Stomatological Society.
An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10103-008-0557-z
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Ergun, S., Mete, Ö., Yeşil, S. et al. Solitary angiokeratoma of the tongue treated with diode laser. Lasers Med Sci 24, 123–125 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10103-007-0525-z
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