Pigmented fungiform papillae of the tongue: clinical and dermoscopic features
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Dermoscopic Features of Pigmented Fungiform Papillae of the Tongue.
Fungiform papillae of the tongue are small projections involved in taste function that are typically located on the lateral aspects and tip of the tongue. They are called fungiform papillae because of their close resemblance to a fungus. In fair-skinned individuals, they are usually pink or red, but in dark-skinned individuals, they are frequently pigmented and are considered a variant of norma...
متن کاملA Case of Pigmented Fungiform Papillae of the Tongue in a Middle Eastern Woman
OBJECTIVE To report a case of pigmented fungiform papillae on the tongue. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 29-year-old female presented with patchy pigmented areas on her tongue of 2 years' duration. Examination of the tongue showed pigmentation confined to the fungiform papillae on the dorsum of the tongue. She was healthy and was not taking any medications and hence a diagnosis of p...
متن کاملResponse to: «pigmented fungiform papillae of the tongue in Laugier disease (or Laugier-Hunziker syndrome)».
The condition is not as rare as it was thought and we believe that its incidence is influenced by a certain racial predisposition in which some unknown factor triggers the appearance of lesions by way of an increase in the synthesis of melanosomes, with idiosyncratic involvement of a variety of sites which, for unknown reasons, are more susceptible to this condition and vary from case to case. ...
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could be discerned. Biopsy showed a tumor confined to the epidermis with acanthosis, a certain degree of papillomatosis, markedly atypical cells, and mitotic figures, with a completely intact basement membrane. Immunohistochemical studies using markers such as Melan-A and pancytokeratin cocktail confirmed the nature of the tumor, which was diagnosed as a case of pigmented Bowen disease. We exci...
متن کاملTechnique to collect fungiform (taste) papillae from human tongue.
The sense of taste is critical for human life. It informs the body about the quality of food that will be potentially ingested and stimulates metabolic processes that prepare the alimentary canal for digestion. Steady progress is being made towards understanding the early biochemical and molecular events underlying taste transduction (for a review, Breslin and Spector, 2008). However, progress ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Our Dermatology Online
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2081-9390
DOI: 10.7241/ourd.20192.31