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...

Benign migratory glossitis or geographic tongue is a psoriasiform mucositis of the dorsum of the tongue. [1] It is a benign inflammatory disorder and was first reported by Rayer [2]. It is more common in adults as compared to children. It is characterized by constantly changing patterns of serpiginous white lines surrounding areas of smooth, depapillated mucosa [1]. Erythematous patches, devoid...

BACKGROUND Glossodynia, or painful sensation of the tongue, can have a spectrum of etiologies, such as local infection, trauma, nerve damage, glossitis, or the enigmatic neuropathic pain syndrome, burning mouth disorder (BMD; also known as burning mouth syndrome). Careful history-taking, physical examination, and appropriate laboratory screening can differentiate these causes of glossodynia and...

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.