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Oral candidiasis

Last reviewed: 28 Sep 2025
Last updated: 22 Aug 2023

Summary

Definition

Анамнез и осмотр

Ключевые диагностические факторы

  • creamy white or yellowish plaques, fairly adherent to oral mucosa
  • burning oral pain
  • cracks, ulcers, or crusted fissures radiating from angles of the mouth
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Другие диагностические факторы

  • unpleasant taste in the mouth
  • lesions on any part of the oral mucosa
  • atrophic, fiery red, flat lesions on the palate
  • patchy areas of loss of filiform papillae on the dorsum of the tongue
  • spotty red areas on the buccal mucosa
  • lesions confined to the outline of a dental prosthesis
  • dysphagia or odynophagia
  • rhomboid outline on the dorsal aspect of the tongue
  • continuous or patchy band of erythema, involving the free gingival margin
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Факторы риска

  • hyposalivation/xerostomia
  • poor oral hygiene, especially among denture wearers
  • malabsorption and malnutrition
  • advanced malignancy
  • cancer chemotherapy and radiotherapy
  • HIV infection
  • endocrine disturbance (e.g., diabetes mellitus, hypoparathyroidism, pregnancy, hypoadrenalism)
  • immunosuppressive agents (e.g., local or systemic corticosteroid therapy)
  • current or recent past use of broad-spectrum or multiple narrow-spectrum antibiotics
  • extremes of age
  • high carbohydrate diet
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Диагностические исследования

Исследования, которые показаны в первую очередь

  • superficial smear of lesion for microscopy
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Исследования, проведение которых нужно рассмотреть

  • biopsy of lesion
  • culture of mouth rinse sample
  • upper GI endoscopy with or without biopsy of lesions
  • urinalysis, random or fasting blood glucose, or glucose tolerance test to exclude diabetes
  • HIV antibody test
  • sialometry
  • electrolyte panel
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Алгоритм лечения

Острый

oral candidiasis

angular cheilitis

ПРОДОЛЖЕНИЕ

severely immunocompromised: prophylactic-therapy

Составители

Авторы

Fariba S. Younai, DDS
Fariba S. Younai

Professor of Clinical Dentistry

Chair, Division of Diagnostic & Surgical Sciences

UCLA School of Dentistry

Los Angeles

CA

Раскрытие информации

FSY declares that she has no competing interests.

Рецензенты

Joan A. Phelan, DDS

Chair of Department of Oral Pathology

New York University College Of Dentistry

New York

NY

Disclosures

JAP declares that she has no competing interests.

Giuseppina Campisi, DDS, PhD

Professor of Oral Medicine

Department of Oral Sciences

University of Palermo

Palermo

Italy

Disclosures

GC declares that she has no competing interests.

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Key articles

National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections in adults and adolescents with HIV: Candidiasis (mucocutaneous). 2020 [internet publication].Full text

Pappas PG, Kauffman CA, Andes DR, et al. Clinical practice guideline for the management of candidiasis: 2016 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Feb 15;62(4):e1-50.Full text  Abstract

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