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Median rhomboid glossitis. Characterized by a red, smooth, flat or raised area, this type of glossitis affects the middle or back of your tongue. Most experts believe median rhomboid glossitis indicates a fungal infection (candida glossitis).
If you have an abnormally smooth, dark pink, or red flat area on your tongue, you may have a condition called median rhomboid glossitis (MRG). The name may sound serious, but unless you have any additional fungal infections along with this condition, you probably won't require treatment.
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.
Median rhomboid glossitis is usually associated with a candidal infection and responds to topical antifungals. Atrophic glossitis is often linked to an underlying nutritional deficiency of...
In patients with median rhomboid glossitis due to chronic candidal infection, prolonged contact of the tongue lesion with the hard palate can result in a lesion on the hard palate, referred to as a “kissing lesion.”
Characteristic findings on physical examination. Clinically there is a rhomboid-shaped, well-defined, erythematous plaque in the central tongue due to localized atrophy of the filiform papillae. Median rhomboid glossitis is a clinical diagnosis, therefore no investigations are required.
Median rhomboid glossitis: A Candida yeast infection often causes this type of glossitis. This article will look at the symptoms, causes, and risk factors for glossitis.
Median rhomboid glossitis is currently thought to represent a chronic fungal (candidiasis) infection in this area of the tongue (see PATIENT INFORMATION SHEET - Oral Yeast Infections). Sometimes a “kissing” lesion develops on the palate, directly opposite from the tongue lesion.
Median rhomboid glossitis is characterized by a smooth, shiny, erythematous, sharply circumscribed, asymptomatic, plaque-like lesion on the dorsal midline of the tongue (Figure 1). Men are...
Median rhomboid glossitis (MRG) is defined as the central papillary atrophy of the tongue and it affects 0.01%–1.0% of the population. 1 MRG is typically located around the midline of the dorsum of the tongue.