Sublingual epidermoid cyst: a case report

Of all the epidermoid cysts encountered throughout the body, only 7% occurs in the head and neck area, with the oral cavity accounting for only 1.6%. Intraorally this benign slow growing and painless entity is usually located in the submandibular, sublingual and submental region. They can cause symp...

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Autores principales: Patil, Karthikeya, Mahima, VG, Malleshi, Suchetha N
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20184699
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8848
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description Of all the epidermoid cysts encountered throughout the body, only 7% occurs in the head and neck area, with the oral cavity accounting for only 1.6%. Intraorally this benign slow growing and painless entity is usually located in the submandibular, sublingual and submental region. They can cause symptoms of dysphagia and dyspnoea and have a malignant transformation potential. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice. Described here is a case of gigantic sublingual epidermoid cyst.
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spelling pubmed-28271002010-02-24 Sublingual epidermoid cyst: a case report Patil, Karthikeya Mahima, VG Malleshi, Suchetha N Cases J Research article Of all the epidermoid cysts encountered throughout the body, only 7% occurs in the head and neck area, with the oral cavity accounting for only 1.6%. Intraorally this benign slow growing and painless entity is usually located in the submandibular, sublingual and submental region. They can cause symptoms of dysphagia and dyspnoea and have a malignant transformation potential. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice. Described here is a case of gigantic sublingual epidermoid cyst. BioMed Central 2009-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2827100/ /pubmed/20184699 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8848 Text en Copyright ©2009 Patil et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Patil, Karthikeya
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Sublingual epidermoid cyst: a case report
title Sublingual epidermoid cyst: a case report
title_full Sublingual epidermoid cyst: a case report
title_fullStr Sublingual epidermoid cyst: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Sublingual epidermoid cyst: a case report
title_short Sublingual epidermoid cyst: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20184699
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