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Conditions that affect the tongue.

Infections

  • Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis
  • Enterovirus infections
  • Hairy leukoplakia
  • Hand, foot and mouth disease
  • Herpangina
  • Herpes simplex (cold sores)
  • Herpes zoster (shingles)
  • Kawasaki's disease
  • Measles
  • Oral candidiasis (thrush)
  • Scarlet fever (scarlet fever)

Non-infectious conditions

  • Aphthous ulcers
  • Behcet's disease
  • Black hairy tongue
  • Chronic ulcerative stomatitis
  • Cicatricial pemphigoid
  • Denture stomatitis
  • Erosive lichen planus
  • Erythema multiform
  • Fissured language
  • Geographic language (benign migratory glossitis)
  • Hairy tongue
  • Lichen planus
  • Linear IgA bullous skin disease
  • Nicotine stomatitis
  • Oral Cancer
  • Oral dysesthesia
  • Irritated oral fibroma
  • Oral leukoplakia
  • Oral lichenoid drug eruption
  • Oral lichen planus
  • Paraneoplastic pemphigus
  • Pemphigus vulgaris
  • Pyodermatitis-pyostomatitis vegetans
  • Stevens - Johnson syndrome / / toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN)
  • Stomatitis
  • Transient lingual papillitis
  • White sponge nevus
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