Tongue (sore)
Sore tongues fall into three main categories:
- the result of recognisable disease:
- glossitis of anaemia e.g. B12 or folate deficiency
- Crohn's disease
- coeliac disease
- carcinoma
- geographic tongue - benign migratory glossitis
- physically normal tongue:
- a full blood count eliminates anaemia as a cause
- if all is normal a psychogenic cause - particularly a masked depression - should be considered
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