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Case Reports
. 2012 Mar 6;184(4):E241.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.111255. Epub 2012 Jan 30.

Lingua plicata

Lluís Nisa  1 , Roland Giger
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Case Reports

Lingua plicata

Lluís Nisa et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Lingua plicata is characterized by deep grooves on the tongue’s dorsum and sides, as seen in a 30-year-old woman following treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma.
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