Predisposing factors include smoking, denture wearing, use of corticosteroid sprays or inhalers and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Candida species even in healthy people mainly colonizes the posterior dorsal tongue.<unk>  is thought to be a type of chronic atrophic (or erythematous) candidiasis. Microbiological culture of the lesion usually shows Candida mixed with bacteria.
Median rhomboid glossitis
Trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis
Metatarsophalangeal joint sprain
Tenosynovitis
Morton's neuroma
Plantar fibromatosis
Plantar calcaneal bursitis
Olecranon bursitis