Ectopic Geographic Tongue - A Case Report

From Volume 34, Issue 2, March 2007 | Pages 121-122

Authors

Felicity Borrie

SHO

Dundee Dental Hospital, Dundee, Scotland

Articles by Felicity Borrie

Rajitha Musthyala

BDS, MFDS RCSEd

Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery Department, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, Scotland

Articles by Rajitha Musthyala

David Macintyre

BDS, FDS RCSEd, FFD RCSIrel

Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery Department, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, Scotland

Articles by David Macintyre

Abstract

This report describes a case of ‘ectopic’ geographic tongue where lesions, clinically and histologically similar to those normally confined to the tongue, presented on the floor of the mouth and cheek mucosa. The patient, a type II diabetic, had a history of thrombocytopaenia and, more recently, autoimmune haemolytic anaemia.

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