Background: Geographic tongue is an inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology that affects the epithelium of the tongue. It has been associated with several cutaneous diseases. Objective: To determine the prevalence of geographic tongue and its association with other cutaneous diseases in patients referred to the dermatology clinic of Razi hospital. Patients and methods: A cross-sectional study...

attempt to revive one nearly half a century old. Those who can remember the personality of Sir Henry Butlin, his clinical teaching and skilful operating and the scholarship which characterised the old book will welcome the decision they arrived at. namely, that there could be no better foundation for a new edition. The skeleton of the book remains the same, but the substance has been altered to...

introduction tongue is one of the most important organs in the oral cavity which has significant roles in different functions such as speaking, mastication, swallowing, breathing, etc. the tongue may be influenced by internal diseases sooner than other organs and also may be involved in some abnormalities that some are developmental and some of them are genetical and environmental. this study h...

The tongue has a rich nerve supply and can detect not only the usual sensation of touch, pressure, heat and cold but also the special sensation of taste. This well developed sensory capability may be considered as a protective feature as it permits the tongue to ‘review’ substances before they pass into gastro intestinal tract. The tongue is important muscular organ which can also help in diagn...

background: since the earliest days of medicine, the tongue has been considered a good reflection of systemic disease. hip­pocrates, galen and others considered the tongue to be barometer of health. in addition, the early diagnose of tongue le­sions help to recognize the some systemic diseases. the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of different mor­phological variations (anom...

In this study, we proposed an automated methodology to analyze and detect and analyze hepatitis by using tongue images analysis based on genetic algorithm–support vector machine. There is a strong association in between the characteristics of tongue and human health diagnosis. GA-SVMs are used to establish a relationship between diseases like appendicitis, diabetes and characteristics of tongue...

Background and Aim: Benign migratory glossitis, or geographic tongue, is usually an asymptomatic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology that affects the epithelium of the tongue. Among the etiologic factors proposed, emotional causes were suspected by several investigators. The objective of this study was to evaluate the anxiety and cortisol level in patients with geographic tongue compared ...