Rhinopharyngitis mutilans

Rhinopharyngitis mutilans,[1][2] also known as gangosa, is a destructive ulcerative condition that usually originates about the soft palate and spreads into the hard palate, nasopharynx, and nose, resulting in mutilating cicatrices, and outward to the face, eroding intervening bone, cartilage, and soft tissues. It occurs in late stages of yaws, usually 5 to 10 years after first symptoms of infection.

References
  1. L. H., Bittner (1926). "Some observations on the tertiary lesions of framboesia tropica, or yaws". The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 1 (2): 123–130.
  2. Berger, Stephen (1 February 2015). Infectious Diseases of Nauru. GIDEON Informatics Inc. p. 320. ISBN 9781498805742. Retrieved 31 October 2015.


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