title: Median rhomboid glossitis. Candidiasis and not a developmental anomaly.
abstract: Infection by Candida Albicans was found in all biopsies taken from ten patients presenting with midline lesions of the tongue which clinically presented as median rhomboid glossitis.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002180:Candidiasis, Oral / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005928:Glossitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010241:Parakeratosis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D014059:Tongue / Q000473:pathology