Polymyositis is an idiopathic systemic disease, characterized by an inflammatory non-supurative process in the skeletal muscle tissue, whose main clinical feature is symmetrical proximal muscle weakness. We report an uncommon and interesting case of polymyositis whose dominant manifestation was tongue involvement in a 54 year-old woman with glossodynia and previous extensive, inconclusive investigation. In the literature, we found only one similar case published; therefore, this could be the second case described in the international literature.
polymyositis; glossodynia; myopathy; dermatomyositis
