Shekhar M Guna
Professor and Consultant Paediatric Dentist, Department of Paediatric Dentistry , Bangalore, India .
J Clin Diagn Res. 2014 Apr;8(4):ZD01-2. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2014/7512.4210. Epub 2014 Apr 15.
This article discusses a case of 5-year-old girl monozygotic twins who were suffering from geographic tongue (GT), a benign inflammatory disorder of the tongue which is characterized by circinate, irregular erythematous lesions on the dorsum and lateral borders of the tongue caused by loss of filiform papillae of the tongue epithelium. Whilst geographic tongue is a common entity, reports on this condition are uncommon in the literature. To best of our knowledge, this is the first report which has described monozygotic twins with geographic tongue in the literature.
本文讨论了一例5岁的同卵双胞胎女孩患地图舌(GT)的病例。地图舌是一种良性的舌部炎症性疾病,其特征是舌背和舌侧边缘出现由舌上皮丝状乳头缺失引起的环形、不规则红斑性病变。虽然地图舌是一种常见病症,但文献中关于这种情况的报道并不常见。据我们所知,这是文献中首次描述同卵双胞胎患地图舌的报告。