Benign migratory glossitis or geographic tongue: An enigmatic oral lesion

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 751-755

  Assimakopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Patrikakos, George ^a   Fotika, Christina ^a   Elisaf, Moses ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; ETRETIN; ETRETINATE; PARACETAMOL; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOL; STEROID;

CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EPITHELIUM; FLUID THERAPY; GEOGRAPHIC TONGUE; GLOSSITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MOUTH LESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; REMISSION; REVIEW; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; ULCER;

ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; GLOSSITIS, BENIGN MIGRATORY; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; TONGUE;

EID: 0037115519     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(02)01379-7     Document Type: Review

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