Biomaterial Database

[Noma: apropos of a case in a 9-year-old child at the Centre Hospitalier de Libreville (Gabon)]. 2002

M Kaba, and M Traore

The authors report the observation of a disease in fact the noma which one believed disappeared, it of it is nothing. This disease, summation of several factors, with frightening forecasts immediate and remote, must have before a whole preventive treatment by the improvement of the standard of living of the populations because its repair is so long, if difficult and so expensive that access will have well little there.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D009625	Noma	A severe gangrenous process occurring predominantly in debilitated and malnourished children, especially in underdeveloped countries. It typically begins as a small vesicle or ulcer on the gingiva that rapidly becomes necrotic and spreads to produce extensive destruction of the buccal and labial mucosa and tissues of the face, which may result in severe disfigurement and even death. Various bacteria have been implicated in the etiology. (Dorland, 27th ed)	Cancrum Oris,Stomatitis, Gangrenous,Gangrenous Stomatitides,Gangrenous Stomatitis,Nomas,Stomatitides, Gangrenous
D011203	Poverty	A situation in which the level of living of an individual, family, or group is below the standard of the community. It is often related to a specific income level.	Federal Poverty Level,Federal Poverty Threshold,Indigency,Low-Income Population,Absolute Poverty,Extreme Poverty,Indigents,Low Income Population,Federal Poverty Levels,Indigent,Level, Federal Poverty,Low Income Populations,Low-Income Populations,Population, Low Income,Population, Low-Income,Poverty Level, Federal,Poverty Threshold, Federal,Poverty, Absolute,Poverty, Extreme
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D005681	Gabon	A republic in west equatorial Africa, south of CAMEROON and west of the CONGO. Its capital is Libreville.	Gabonese Republic
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man