Schneiderman Prelims Vol-I. qxd

EXOGENOUS AGENTS
Chewing on house plant (dieffenbachia) leaves containing calcium
oxalate 
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol 78:631–633, 1994
INFECTIONS AND INFESTATIONS
Abscess 
Br Dent J 24:376–382, 1986
Actinomycosis
Bacterial glossitis
Candidiasis – chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis 
Annu Rev
Med 32:491–497, 1981
Cellulitis/erysipelas 
Br Med J 300:24, 1990
Histoplasmosis
Infection – chronic inflammation of ‘scrotal’ tongue
Leishmaniasis – post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis – in India,
hypopigmented macules; nodules develop after years; tongue,
palate, genitalia 
Rook p.1370,1419–1420, 1998, Sixth Edition;
E Afr Med J 63:365–371, 1986
Leprosy – multilobulated tongue 
Int J Leprosy 64:325–330, 1992
Mycobacterium tuberculosis – tuberculosis Cutis 60:201–202,
1997
Syphilis – secondary 
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol
45:540–542, 1978; tertiary (gumma) (interstitial glossitis) Rook
p.1252, 1998, Sixth Edition
Wasp/bee stings of the tongue 
Oto Head Neck Surg 122:778,
2000
INFILTRATIVE DISEASES
Amyloidosis – primary systemic – myeloma, plasmacytomas
Postgrad Med J 64:696–698, 1988; Oral Surg 63:586–591,
1987; Clin Exp Dermatol 4:517–536, 1979; dialysis-related
amyloidosis – nodular macroglossia with combined light chain
and 
β
2
-microglobulin deposition 
J Nephrol 14:128–131, 2001;
Kidney Int 52:832–838, 1997
Juvenile xanthogranuloma, giant 
Am J Otolaryngol 20:241–244,
1999
INFLAMMATORY DISEASES
Crohn’s disease – cobblestoning, pyostomatitis vegetans
Median rhomboid glossitis – tongue nodule 
AD 135:593–598,
1999
Sarcoidosis 
Clin Exp Dermatol 17:47–48, 1992
METABOLIC DISEASES
Acromegaly 
JAAD 42:511–513, 2000
Adult onset acid maltase deficiency 
Medicine 74:131, 1995
Gigantism
Hypothyroidism, myxedema 
Virchows Archives A Pathol Anat
Histol 373:353–360, 1977
Vitamin B
12
deficiency (pernicious anemia, sprue) – enlarged
red tongue 
AD 122:896–899, 1986