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Lips and tongue in Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome

A 33-year-old woman with Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome, showing swelling with edema and induration of both lips (A and B); fissured tongue (C). (From: Galaviz-Chaparro OG, Soto-Ortiz JA, Velázquez-Rodríguez C, Sierra-Franco A, Limón-Limón MF. From clinical suspicion to therapeutic resolution: a case of Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome. Cureus 2025;17[8]:e90763. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

Associated Disorders

  • Bell palsy
  • Cheilitis granulomatosa
  • Crohn disease
  • Granulomatous blepharitis
  • Miescher cheilitis
  • Monosymptomatic Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome
  • Oligosymptomatic Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome