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Bull Group Int Rech Sci Stomatol Odontol
February 1993
Laboratory of Histology-Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
The development of the tongue begins as known, in the floor of the primitive oral cavity, when the human embryo is four weeks old. More specifically, the tongue develops from the region of the first three or four branchial arches during the period that the external face develops. Malformations of the tongue, are structural defects, present at birth and happening during embryogenesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThough known for a long time and by no means rare, median rhomboid glossitis (MRG) still gives rise to questions concerning its dignity and etiology. MRG was found in 54 out of 4,422 stomatologically investigated dermatological patients. The patient's ages ranged from 10 to 69 years, the sex ratio was 3:1 male to female.
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