Clinical features
The clinical features characteristic of Vincent's angina:
- most common in young patients who are generally run down
- poor oral hygiene
- smoker
- abrupt onset of:
- gingival pain and bleeding
- foul metallic taste
- halitosis
- enlarged, tender cervical lymph nodes
- fever, malaise, anorexia
- oral examination reveals punched-out, ragged gingival ulceration
- if the pharyngeal mucosa is also inflamed, then this defines Vincent's angina
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