Relationship Between Geographic Tongue and Psoriasis: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 23 - 28, 25.04.2019

Birsen Korkmaz Murat İnanç Cengiz Rafet Koca

Abstract

Oral mucosa for shedding light on diagnosis of many cutaneous diseases, need to careful examination. Oral mucosal diseases are concerns to specialists across multiple disciplines, such as dentistry, dermatology and otorhinolaryngology. Oral lesions also reported with psoriasis. These lesions are pustule and geographical tongue. Geographic tongue lesions are as slightly raised, round shaped, erythematous lesions that are restricted by well defined whitish borders. Etiopathogenesis of geographic tongue is unkown. The aim of this present paper is to report a case with geographic tongue and to understand the relationship between geographic tongue and psoriasis.

Keywords

Geographic tongue, psoriasis, oral lesion

Coğrafik Dil ve Psoriasis Hastalığı Arasındaki İlişki: Olgu Sunumu ve Literatür Derlemesi

Abstract

Oral mukoza, birçok kutanöz hastalığın tanısına ışık tutan bir pencere olması açısından dikkatle muayene edilmesi gereken bir bölgedir. Oral mukoza hastalıkları diş hekimliği, dermatoloji, kulak burun boğaz gibi pek çok branşı birlikte ilgilendirmektedir. Psoriasis hastalarında oral lezyonlar görülebilmektedir. Bu lezyonlar oral mukozada püstül yada coğrafik dil şeklinde olabilmektedir. Coğrafik dil lezyonları hafif kabarık, yuvarlak, beyazımsı sınırları olan eritematöz lezyonlardır. Etiyopatogenezi bilinmemektedir. Bu olgu sunumunun amacı coğrafik dil lezyonlarına sahip bir olguyu sunmak ve coğrafik dil ile psoriasis hastalığı arasındaki ilişkisinin anlaşılabilmesini sağlamaktır.

Keywords

Coğrafik dil, psoriasis, oral lezyon

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