Geographic tongue and psoriasis: clinical, histopathological, immunohistochemical and genetic correlation - a literature review

Abstract: Geographic tongue is a chronic, inflammatory, and immune-mediated oral lesion of unknown etiology. It is characterized by serpiginous white areas around the atrophic mucosa, which alternation between activity, remission and reactivation at various locations gave the names benign migratory...

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Main Authors: Bruna Lavinas Sayed Picciani, Tábata Alves Domingos, Thays Teixeira-Souza, Vanessa de Carla Batista dos Santos, Heron Fernando de Sousa Gonzaga, Juliana Cardoso-Oliveira, Alexandre Carlos Gripp, Eliane Pedra Dias, Sueli Carneiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2016-08-01
Series:Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0365-05962016000400410&tlng=en