A Case of Acute Glossitis

A Case of Acute Glossitis

A Case of Acute Parenchymatous Glossitis

A young Sikh girl, aged about 14 years, was brought to me on the night of the 3rd June, 1926, with very acute inflammation of the tongue. The history given was that about 8.15 that evening when taking her evening meal, and about to consume the last morsel of it from her hand, she had suddenly felt acute pain in the tongue. Her mother thought that the girl had probably bitten her tongue and advi...

A Case of Acute Glossitis

was brought to hospital on the morning of t'he 7th May 1926, with his tongue enormously swollen. The history was that this condition had started insidiously the previous night. So enormously swollen was the tongue that the boy could not completely close his mouth, and it was impossible to see the back of his throat. Respiration was carried on through the nose, and was 26 per minute, while the p...

Rhomboid glossitis in atypical location: case report and differential diagnosis.

Median rhomboid glossitis (MRG) is an uncommon benign abnormality of the tongue, most frequently affecting men. It is typically located around the midline of the dorsum of the tongue, anterior to the lingual "V", appearing as a reddish, rhomboid area, depapillated, flat maculate or mamillated and raised by 2 - 5 mm. This paper reports a case of rhomboid glossitis in a 61-year-old man who consul...

Kaposi's sarcoma of the tongue associated with median rhomboid glossitis in a non-AIDS patient. A case report.

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) of the tongue is extremely rare in immunocompetent patients. We report a case of KS of the tongue associated with a median rhomboid glossitis. The main clinical, pathological and immunohistochemical features allowed the differential diagnosis.

Idiopathic atrophic glossitis as the only clinical sign for celiac disease diagnosis: a case report

INTRODUCTION The aim of this case report is to show how an oral condition, such as atrophic glossitis, can be the only clinical sign that allows an early diagnosis of celiac disease. CASE PRESENTATION Atrophic glossitis was detected by a dentist during a first routine examination of the oral cavity of a 17-year-old Sardinian young woman and then differential diagnosis was carried out to ident...