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- Title
Noma: an elegy to innocence and youth.
- Authors
Hernandez, Angelino Ramon Garcia; Maurer, Brian T.; Elpern, David J.
- Abstract
This article presents a commentary on the ways and patterns of medicine practice, specially of tropical medicine. A clinical case of noma, or orofacial gangrene, in a female child of Zimbabwe. The physical examination revealed a wasted female child weighing 5.0 kg, measuring 70 cm in length. She was pale, with sparse scalp hair. The oral mucosa showed a cheesy discharge consistent with thrush. There was no edema or anasarca. The authors suggest that Physicians have much to learn from social scientists and also from poets about how to honor patients like the said child of Zimbabwe. A MEDLINE search has yielded a large number of articles on noma (cancrum oris) in the past few years, and most describe patients from sub-Saharan Africa. These articles show that this disorder has become more prevalent recently.
- Subjects
GANGRENE; CHILDREN'S health; MEDICAL practice; TROPICAL medicine; SKIN diseases; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL research; MEDLINE
- Publication
International Journal of Dermatology, 2005, Vol 44, Issue 8, p661
- ISSN
0011-9059
- Publication type
Other
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-4632.2004.02511.x