Medical Case Reports

Snuff Dipping Sudanese Tombak Keratosis - A Case Report

Oral smokeless tobacco is consumed without burning, placed in many areas in the oral cavity especially labial vestibules. In Sudan, it’s widely practiced among young population; it can give rise to sub-mucous fibrosis, leukoplakia, snuff dipper’s lesion, squamous cell carcinoma. The current case report has typical features of snuff dippers lesions (keratosis) in a young Sudanese male who had history of smokeless tobacco dipping in the labial vestibules for a long term.

Author(s):

Yousif I Eltohami, Nour E Alim and Amal H Abuaffan

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