Related DDx ⬇
Etiology ⬆
- Painful oral ulcers, eg, herpes simplex, aphthous ulcers
- Cerebral stroke or subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Brainstem or cerebellar infarct, mass, or hemorrhage
- Multiple sclerosis
- Pseudobulbar palsy
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Poliomyelitis
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Myasthenia gravis
- Botulism
- Parkinsonism
- Huntington’s disease
- Wilson’s disease
- Trauma to cranial nerve V or XII
- Diphtheria
- Macroglossia, eg, amyloidosis, hypothyroidism