Median Rhomboid Glossitis Histology. It is typically located around the midline of the dorsum of the tongue anterior to the lingual v appearing as a reddish rhomboid area depapillated flat maculate or mamillated and raised by 2 5 mm. This paper reports a case of rhomboid glossitis in a 61 year old man who consulted for a painless raised lesion on the dorsum of the tongue in left paramedial not.
Median rhomboid glossitis mrg is an uncommon benign abnormality of the tongue most frequently affecting men. Of the cases studied 85 percent showed the presence of fungal hyphae in the parakeratin layer. Median rhomboid glossitis in a child.
It occurs in as many as 1 of adults.
Median rhomboid glossitis is a condition characterized by an area of redness and loss of lingual papillae on the central dorsum of the tongue sometimes including lesions of the tongue and palate. Red patch usually 2 3 cm long in posterior midline dorsal tongue just anterior to v shaped grouping of circumvallate papillae with loss of papillae or taste buds. Often the location can vary from center to the back of the tongue. The affected area of the tongue is missing its normal coating of finger like projections called filiform papilla which normally cover the entire top surface of the tongue.
