A Rare Case of Congenital Ranula in an Infant

Ranula is a mucus extravasation cyst originating from the sublingual gland on the floor of the mouth. Congenital ranula is very rare. We report a case of a 4-month-old girl with a congenital ranula in the floor of mouth. The ranula was treated first by marsupialization, but the cyst recurred after 1...

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Autores principales: Mneimneh, Sirin, Barazi, Randa, Rajab, Mariam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27313929
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5874595
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description Ranula is a mucus extravasation cyst originating from the sublingual gland on the floor of the mouth. Congenital ranula is very rare. We report a case of a 4-month-old girl with a congenital ranula in the floor of mouth. The ranula was treated first by marsupialization, but the cyst recurred after 1 week. Excision of the ranula was done and was successful.
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spelling pubmed-48934532016-06-16 A Rare Case of Congenital Ranula in an Infant Mneimneh, Sirin Barazi, Randa Rajab, Mariam Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report Ranula is a mucus extravasation cyst originating from the sublingual gland on the floor of the mouth. Congenital ranula is very rare. We report a case of a 4-month-old girl with a congenital ranula in the floor of mouth. The ranula was treated first by marsupialization, but the cyst recurred after 1 week. Excision of the ranula was done and was successful. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4893453/ /pubmed/27313929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5874595 Text en Copyright © 2016 Sirin Mneimneh et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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