The unnamed 64-year-old man from Ohio, who was a smoker, told doctors his tongue had been discolored for two weeks, doctors wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine. The man had completed a ...
raised bumps on the surface of the tongue, indentations, and/or discolored patches. A small percentage of patients also reported a burning sensation in their mouth. These findings were based on ...
At 29 days, he noticed brownish discoloration of the tongue (Figure). Due to the typical clinical picture, lingua villosa nigra, or “black hairy tongue” (BHT), was diagnosed. The hallmark of ...