title: Fissured tongue responding to biologics during the treatment of psoriasis: the importance of detecting oral involvement of psoriasis.
abstract: Recent studies have provided more evidence that psoriasis can give mucosal lesions, especially oral. Nonspecific lesions such as fissured tongue and geographic tongue are relatively frequent in patients suffering from psoriasis. We report a case of a patient presenting an important improvement of his fissured tongue paralleling the improvement of the cutaneous lesions after a 5-month systemic therapy with infliximab. The authors think it would be important to consider possible oral lesions in patients suffering from psoriasis in normal practice and to evaluate them introducing specific clinical scales.
authors.affiliation: Division of Dermatology, Department of Surgery and Translational Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. a.m.derme@gmail.com
authors.forename: Angelo Massimiliano
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: D'Erme
authors.forename: Arianna Fay
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Agnoletti
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Prignano
mesh_terms: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D000069285:Infliximab; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011565:Psoriasis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D014063:Tongue, Fissured / Q000188:drug therapy*; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D000069285:Infliximab
keywords: biologics; fissured tongue; psoriasis