Tongue features of patients with granulomatous lobular mastitis

Traditional Chinese tongue diagnosis plays an irreplaceable role in disease diagnosis. This study aimed to describe the tongue characteristics of patients with granulomatous lobular mastitis (GLM). Forty GLM patients and 40 non-GLM controls were evaluated using the Traditional Chinese Medicine subje...

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Published in:Medicine (Baltimore) 2022-11, Vol.101 (46), p.e31327-e31327
Main Authors: Chen, Jiajing, Yang, Jiyong, Qin, Yuenong, Sun, Chenping, Xu, Jiatuo, Zhou, Xiqiu, Wu, Chunyu, Xu, Yiyun, Liu, Sheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Female
Granulomatous Mastitis - diagnosis
Humans
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Observational Study
Tongue
Transforming Growth Factor beta
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Summary:Traditional Chinese tongue diagnosis plays an irreplaceable role in disease diagnosis. This study aimed to describe the tongue characteristics of patients with granulomatous lobular mastitis (GLM). Forty GLM patients and 40 non-GLM controls were evaluated using the Traditional Chinese Medicine subjective clinical interpretation and a TDA-1 Tongue Diagnostic and Analysis system. The associations between the image features of the tongue body and coating and the profiling of immune-inflammatory parameters were analyzed. GLM patients were prone to a reddish tongue bodies with thick, white, and greasy coatings. Thick and greasy tongue coating features are risk factors for GLM. GLM patients had higher levels of white blood cells (WBC), platelets, C-reactive protein, interleukin-2, and transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) than non-GLM controls ( P  
ISSN:1536-5964
0025-7974
1536-5964
DOI:10.1097/MD.0000000000031327