Bilateral nasolabial cysts: a case report

BACKGROUND: Nasoalveolar cysts are rare non-odontogenic cysts that occur beneath the nasal alar region. Few cases of bilateral nasoalveolar cysts have been described. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a rare case of a 67-year-old Japanese woman with bilateral nasoalveolar cysts who presented to our depar...

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Autores principales: Sato, Masaru, Morita, Keiichi, Kabasawa, Yuji, Harada, Hiroyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5015322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27604349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1024-2
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author Sato, Masaru
Morita, Keiichi
Kabasawa, Yuji
Harada, Hiroyuki
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Morita, Keiichi
Kabasawa, Yuji
Harada, Hiroyuki
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description BACKGROUND: Nasoalveolar cysts are rare non-odontogenic cysts that occur beneath the nasal alar region. Few cases of bilateral nasoalveolar cysts have been described. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a rare case of a 67-year-old Japanese woman with bilateral nasoalveolar cysts who presented to our department with the chief complaint of a swollen left nasal alar base. Panoramic radiography revealed no abnormalities. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed a well-circumscribed oval lesion at both alar bases. Therefore, bilateral nasoalveolar cysts were clinically diagnosed. Furthermore, these cysts were extirpated under general anesthesia; the aforementioned diagnosis was histopathologically confirmed. No recurrence has been observed 1 year after surgery. CONCLUSIONS: Nasoalveolar cysts are rare. It is necessary to be careful because nasoalveolar cysts can show bilateral occurrence.
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spelling pubmed-50153222016-09-09 Bilateral nasolabial cysts: a case report Sato, Masaru Morita, Keiichi Kabasawa, Yuji Harada, Hiroyuki J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Nasoalveolar cysts are rare non-odontogenic cysts that occur beneath the nasal alar region. Few cases of bilateral nasoalveolar cysts have been described. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a rare case of a 67-year-old Japanese woman with bilateral nasoalveolar cysts who presented to our department with the chief complaint of a swollen left nasal alar base. Panoramic radiography revealed no abnormalities. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed a well-circumscribed oval lesion at both alar bases. Therefore, bilateral nasoalveolar cysts were clinically diagnosed. Furthermore, these cysts were extirpated under general anesthesia; the aforementioned diagnosis was histopathologically confirmed. No recurrence has been observed 1 year after surgery. CONCLUSIONS: Nasoalveolar cysts are rare. It is necessary to be careful because nasoalveolar cysts can show bilateral occurrence. BioMed Central 2016-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5015322/ /pubmed/27604349 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1024-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Sato, Masaru
Morita, Keiichi
Kabasawa, Yuji
Harada, Hiroyuki
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title_full Bilateral nasolabial cysts: a case report
title_fullStr Bilateral nasolabial cysts: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral nasolabial cysts: a case report
title_short Bilateral nasolabial cysts: a case report
title_sort bilateral nasolabial cysts: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5015322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27604349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1024-2
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