Rose petal appearance: The dermoscopic finding in pigmented fungiform papillae of the tongue
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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...
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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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Taste bud quantitation may provide useful parameters for interspecies comparisons of the gustatory system. The present study is a morphometric analysis of bovine taste papillae. Circumvallate and fungiform papillae from six bovine tongues were serially sectioned and, following staining, analyzed. Circumvallate papillae were found to have a mean volume of 3.66 +/- 2.82 mm3, a mean number of tast...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Dermatology Online Journal
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2229-5178
DOI: 10.4103/idoj.idoj_589_19