doi: 10.1016/0030-4220(78)90312-2.
Median rhomboid glossitis: not a misnomer. Review of the literature and histologic study of twenty-eight cases
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Median rhomboid glossitis: not a misnomer. Review of the literature and histologic study of twenty-eight cases
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol.
1978 Dec.
Abstract
A series of twenty-eight cases of median rhomboid glossitis were studied histologically. Of these twenty-eight cases, 85 percent showed fungal hyphae in the parakeratin layer. The literature is reviewed, and additional evidence is presented to support the theory the median rhomboid glossitis is not a developmental condition but the clinical expression of a localized chronic fungal infection.