Docteur! regardez ma langue!
Amina Kissou, Badr Eddine Hassam
Corresponding author: Amina Kissou, Department of Dermatology Ibn Sina Hospital Centre, Rabat, Morocco 
Received: 12 Jan 2017 - Accepted: 15 May 2017 - Published: 01 Jun 2017
Domain: Dermatology
Keywords: Langue, noire, villeuse
©Amina Kissou et al. Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cite this article: Amina Kissou et al. Docteur! regardez ma langue!. Pan African Medical Journal. 2017;27:75. [doi: 10.11604/pamj.2017.27.75.11632]
Available online at: https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com//content/article/27/75/full
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Docteur! regardez ma langue!
Docteur! regardez ma langue!
Doctor, please look at my tongue!
Amina Kissou1,&, Badr Eddine Hassam1
1Department of Dermatology Ibn Sina Hospital Centre, Rabat, Morocco
&Auteur correspondant
Amina Kissou, Department of Dermatology Ibn Sina Hospital Centre, Rabat, Morocco
Black villous tongue is a benign condition. It is a change in the color and appearance of the tongue which becomes black, dirty, with elongated filiform papillae. Several factors are involved: smoking, excessive consumption of coffee/tea, poor oral hygiene, trigeminal neuralgia and some drugs. We here report a new case of back villous tongue.
Key words: Tongue, black, villous
La langue noire villeuse est une condition bénigne. C'est une modification de la couleur de l'aspect de la langue qui devient noire, sale, avec des papilles filiformes allongées. Plusieurs facteurs sont impliqués: tabagisme, consommation excessive de café / thé, mauvaise hygiène bucco-dentaire, névralgie du trijumeau et certains médicaments. Nous rapportons un nouveau cas.
Figure 1: langue noire villeuse
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