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Hairy tongue in a 1-month-old infant
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A 45-day-old male infant was brought to the outpatient department with dark discolouration of the dorsum of the tongue that had developed the day before (figure 1).
Figure 1
A black/green hue of the dorsum of the tongue.
He was born after 38 weeks’ gestation (complicated by pre-eclampsia) to young healthy non-consanguineous parents. His birth weight was 3350 g …
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