Prevalence of fissured tongue, geographic tongue and median rhomboid glossitis among Israeli adults of different ethnic origins

Dermatology

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 88-94

  Yarom, Noam ^a   Cantony, Uri ^a   Gorsky, Meir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ashkenazi origin; Eastern origin; Fissured tongue; Geographic tongue; Israeli ethnic background; Median rhomboid glossitis; Sephardic origin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC TONGUE; GLOSSITIS; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; TONGUE DISEASE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GLOSSITIS, BENIGN MIGRATORY; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TONGUE, FISSURED;

EID: 4444305417     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079590     Document Type: Article

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