Thread by @DrHeliumm

Do you look at your rheumatic patients' tongues as part of your physical examination?

let's review the the tongue 👅 findings in rheumatic diseases in this thread 🧵

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1. Giant cell arteritis: Tongue necrosis (infarction)

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2. Psoriasis: Geographic tongue

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3. Kawasaki disease: Strawberry tongue

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4. Sjogren's: Dry and fissured tongue

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5. SLE: Painless (usually) tongue sores

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6. Bechet’s: Tongue aphthous ulcer

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7. Amyloidosis: Thickened and enlarged tongue (macroglossia)

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8. Systemic sclerosis: Tongue telangiectasis

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Please add other tongue pathologies related to the rheumatic diseases to this thread.

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