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Background
The tounge is a muscle covered by a thickened squamous mucosa. It frequently is involved in diseases that affect the entire oral cavity. However, it may occasionally be the first sign of a systemic disease. Remember when you were told to "Stick your tounge out!". The doctor really did learn something from this gagging experience! This overview provides a differential diagnosis of diseases which prominently affect the tounge or secondarily affect the tounge in systemic disorders.
OUTLINE
Differential Diagnosis Commonly Used Terms Internet Links
Pemphigus vegetans Candidiasis Condyloma accuminata Cryptococcal infections Herpes simplex glossitis Lichen planus Squamous cell carcinoma Syphilis Tuberculosis Verrucous leukoplakia
- Potential pitfalls in diagnostic oral pathology: a review for the general surgical pathologist.
Massey D.
From the Division of Anatomic Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA.
Adv Anat Pathol. 2005 Nov;12(6):332-49. Abstract quote
Oral developmental, reactive, benign neoplastic and malignant neoplastic conditions, many odontogenic in origin, may not be seen routinely by the general surgical pathologist and therefore may present a diagnostic dilemma.
This article describes odontogenic and nonodontogenic conditions with little or no destructive potential along with the more aggressive conditions that resemble them clinically and histologically. The importance of clinical and radiographic correlation as an adjunct to tissue diagnosis is highlighted. Additionally, a brief summary of odontogenesis is presented with attention given to odontogenic embryologic remnants and the developmental and pathologic processes that may arise from them.
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