What Is Median Rhomboid Glossitis?

1. Adult men are more common.

Sun Zheng	(Chief physician)	Department of Oral Mucosa, Beijing Stomatological Hospital
Guan Xiaobing	(Chief physician)	Department of Oral Mucosa, Beijing Stomatological Hospital

Median rhomboid glossitis: An inflammation-like lesion in the shape of a rhombus in front of the chevron groove on the back of the tongue. The disease is more common in adult men, and asymptomatic patients may not need treatment.

Western Medicine Name

Median rhomboid glossitis

Affiliated Department

Department of Physiology-Stomatology

Multiple groups

Adult male

Contagious

Non-contagious

Clinical manifestations of median rhomboid glossitis

1. Adult men are more common.

2. Most of them have no conscious symptoms and do not affect tongue function.

3 It is located in front of the chevron in the middle of the back of the tongue, with dark red color and clear boundaries. According to the shape, it is divided into smooth type and nodular type.

(1) The smooth type is located in front of the middle of the tongue in the herringbone groove, with a clear boundary and a red smooth nipple atrophy area.

(2) Nodular lesions have nodular protrusions on the surface, some of which are red protrusions of millet size.

Median rhomboid glossitis disease treatment

1. Asymptomatic people do not need treatment, just explain.

2. Complicated Candida albicans infection should be treated with antifungal.

3 Nodular patterns such as induration of the base should be biopsied to confirm the diagnosis. ^[1]