HEENT TONGUE

Question 1

CN XII lesion

Answer 1

Asymmetric protrusion

Question 2

common in men over 50 who are drinkers, smokers, usually appears on
side or base of tongue-persistant nodules

Answer 2

Cancer

Question 3

discolored lesions raised with feathery or

corrugated pattern- cannot be scraped off- HIV/AIDS

Answer 3

Hairy Leukoplakia

Question 4

benign, dorsum has scattered smooth areas, gives changing

map appearance

Answer 4

Geographic Tongue

Question 5

yellowish to black with enlogated papillae on

dorsum, associated with antibiotic therapy

Answer 5

Harry Tongue

Question 6

with increasing age, benign, may have food

accumulate in crevices

Answer 6

Fissured Tongue (scrotal tongue)-

Question 7

smooth tongue- vitamin deficiency (niacin,

folic acid, B12, iron), chemotherapy

Answer 7

Atrophic Glossitis

Question 8

thick white coating, may be scraped off, chemotherapy or prednisone

Answer 8

Candidasis

Question 9

small purple or black round swellings under

tongue, with age, benign

Answer 9

Varicose Veins-

Question 10

painful, round ulcer that is white or yellowish

surrounded by a halo of red mucosa, heals 7-10 days

Answer 10

Aphthous Ulcer (canker sore)-

Question 11

painless lesion of seconday syphilis,

highly infectious, raised, oval covered by grayish membrane

Answer 11

Mucous Patch of Syphilis

Question 12

round bony growths on inner surface of mandible- bilateral,

asymptomatic, harmless

Answer 12

Tori Mandibulares

Question 13

ulcerated lesion

Answer 13

Carcinoma