What are the causes of facial swelling?
Causes of facial swelling may include:
Nephrogenic causes | acute glomerulonephritis subacute nephritis nephrotic syndrome nephrosis diabetic nephropathy nephropathy in pregnancy chronic kidney diseases Kimmellstiell-Wilson morbus |
Endocrine causes | Cushing’s syndrome myxedema Sheehan syndrome malignant exophthalmos |
Cape edema | bronchial carcinoma mediastinal sarcoma retrosternal goiter Hodgkin’s disease |
Other causes | Quincke’s edema facial erysipelas varicella parkinsonism scleroderma (in children) Melkerson-Rosenthal syndrome seborrheic dermatitis tooth infection paranasal sinusitis cortisone face cream |