Burning red tongue with grooves

burning tongue in patients with geographic and grooved tongue: a study on secondary school students.

this study was conducted on the secondary school students by actively patient selection method it means that patients did not go to see the doctor themselves. the studies were randomly selected among the schools located in areas of average socioeconomic status. although geographic and fissured tongue disorders with no discomfort and with clinical sign are common phenomena, they are detected and...

Red papules on the tongue of a patient with hemiparesis.

A39-year-oldwomanhadanacuteonsetofheadache, increasingrightside hemiparesis, and numbness with fever. Computed tomography (CT) of the brain showed a ring-enhanced lesion with surrounding edemaon the left frontoparietal lobe.Multiple red papules on the tongue (Figure 1), trunk, and limbs were noted during the physical examination. The patient stated she had not noticed the red papules before. Th...

Strange Grooves

Burning pain attacks and red skin in a young woman.

A 21-year-old woman presented with a five-year history of burning pain, redness, swelling and heat in her feet. The medical history disclosed palmar hyperhidrosis. Her family history was unremarkable. Examination showed erythema, heat and marked swelling in her feet, which improved after gabapentin and acetylsalicylic acid treatment (Figure). An extensive evaluation for secondary causes was unr...

Capillary rise in tubes with sharp grooves

Liquid in grooved capillaries, made by e-ginserting a plate in a cylindrical tube, exhibits unusual spreading and flow properties. One example is capillary rise, where a long, upward tongue on top of the usual meniscus has been observed along the groove. We attribute the underlying mechanism to a thermodynamic instability against spreading for a (partial