Table 2.
Results of intraoral and extraoral examinations, microbiological tests and cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) in patients with GPA.
| Patient, age (years) | Oral examination | Salivary glands | Microbiological tests |
Radiological findings | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacteria | Fungi | ||||
| AO, 67 | normal | normal | negative | Candida albicans | normal |
| CD, 59 | tongue filiform papillaes hypertrophy, petechiae of soft palate |
normal | negative | Candida albicans | Early stage of maxillary sinuses wall destruction |
| MM, 24 | tongue filiform papillaes hypertrophy, gingivitis |
normal | negative | negative | Bilateral maxillary sinuses wall destruction |
| AZ, 56 | normal | normal | negative | Candida albicans | normal |
| ZD, 52 | strawberry gingivitis, coated tongue |
normal | negative | Candida albicans | Minor mucosa thickening in the right maxillary sinus |
| KG, 67 | normal | normal | negative | Candida albicans | Mucosa thickening in the right maxillary sinus and bilateral smoothing in maxillary sinuses |
| MP, 59 | paleness of oral mucosa | normal | negative | Candida norvegensis | normal |
| IT, 34 | normal | normal | negative | negative | Bilateral maxillary sinuses wall destruction |
| TZ, 67 | petechiae of oral mucosa | normal | negative | negative | normal |