title: A hair on the tongue.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Human hairs are generally localized on the cutaneous part of the head, neck, torso, armpits, pubis and limbs. Sometimes it can be found in an unusual localization and is then called heterotopic.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 30-year-old man presented with a hair in the middle of the dorsum of the tongue. It was decided to perform an excision under local anesthesia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Few reports exist that describe hair growing on mucosa. Only one other case has been published concerning the tongue.
authors.affiliation: AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Department of Odontology (Pr Descroix), 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, Paris, France; Paris Diderot university, Faculté d'Odontologie, 4, rue Garancière, Paris, France. Electronic address: julietterochefort@yahoo.fr.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rochefort
authors.affiliation: AP-HP, Pierre et Marie Curie - Sorbonne University, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Maxillo-Facial Surgery (Pr Goudot), 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, Paris, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guedj
authors.affiliation: AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Department of Odontology (Pr Descroix), 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, Paris, France; Paris Diderot university, Faculté d'Odontologie, 4, rue Garancière, Paris, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lescaille
authors.affiliation: AP-HP, Pierre et Marie Curie - Sorbonne University, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Department of Anatomy and Pathology Cytology (Pr Capron), 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, Paris, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hervé
authors.affiliation: AP-HP, Pierre et Marie Curie - Sorbonne University, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Maxillo-Facial Surgery (Pr Goudot), 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, Paris, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Agbo-Godeau
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002828:Choristoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006197:Hair / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012627:Sebaceous Glands / Q000473:pathology*; D014059:Tongue / Q000473:pathology; D014060:Tongue Diseases / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: Cavité orale; Chirurgie; Hair; Langue; Oral cavity; Poil; Surgery; Tongue