title: Carcinoma arising in the area of median rhomboid glossitis.
abstract: Routine soft-tissue examination of a 44-year-old Negro woman who consulted her dentist for a new maxillary partial denture revealed a depressed white lesion in the area of median rhomboid glossitis. Biopsy diagnosis of the area was well-differentiated squamous-cell carcinoma. The relation of this lesion to median rhomboid glossitis is questioned in view of previous reports.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014059:Tongue / Q000473:pathology*; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*