Median Rhomboid Glossitis Histology. 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 consulted for a painless raised lesion on the dorsum of the tongue in left paramedial not.
Median rhomboid glossitis is a rare tongue disorder which develops as a pink or smooth red patch on the dorsum of the tongue. Red patch usually 2 3 cm long in posterior midline dorsal tongue just anterior to v shaped grouping of circumvallate papillae with loss of papillae or taste buds. Median rhomboid glossitis is the term used to describe a smooth red flat or raised nodular area on the top part dorsum of the middle or back of the tongue.
Median rhomboid glossitis in a child.
About 1 of the population gets affected by the median rhomboid glossitis. It is seen in patients using inhaled steroids and smokers and is usually a kind of chronic atrophic oral candidiasis but hematinic deficiency and diabetes should be excluded. The affected area of the tongue is missing its normal coating of finger like projections called filiform papilla which normally cover the entire top surface of the tongue. Note atypical appearance of the lesion which is more commonly an erythematous atrophic.
