Geographic tongue and psoriasis: clinical, histopathological, immunohistochemical and genetic correlation - a literature review

• Main Authors: Bruna Lavinas Sayed Picciani (Author), Tábata Alves Domingos (Author), Thays Teixeira-Souza (Author), Vanessa de Carla Batista dos Santos (Author), Heron Fernando de Sousa Gonzaga (Author), Juliana Cardoso-Oliveira (Author), Alexandre Carlos Gripp (Author), Eliane Pedra Dias (Author), Sueli Carneiro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia, 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract: Geographic tongue is a chronic, inflammatory, and immune-mediated oral lesion of unknown etiology. It is characterized by serpiginous white areas around the atrophic mucosa, which alternation between activity, remission and reactivation at various locations gave the names benign migratory...