Ectopic Salivary Gland Cyst in the Neck: Association with Congenital Plunging Ranula

Congenital ranula is rare. We report a large, symptomatic, congenital plunging ranula associated with a salivary gland cyst in the neck. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such reported case. Even though both the cysts had their origin from the sublingual gland, only the cervical cyst h...

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Autores principales: Pant, Nitin, Verma, Ajay Kumar, Khan, Tanvir Rashan, Wakhlu, Ashish
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28974881
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_260_16
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description Congenital ranula is rare. We report a large, symptomatic, congenital plunging ranula associated with a salivary gland cyst in the neck. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such reported case. Even though both the cysts had their origin from the sublingual gland, only the cervical cyst had a capsular covering. Herniation of a part of the immature sublingual gland anlage through a congenital mylohyoid defect, its separation, and subsequent maturation could explain this occurrence.
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spelling pubmed-56159032017-10-04 Ectopic Salivary Gland Cyst in the Neck: Association with Congenital Plunging Ranula Pant, Nitin Verma, Ajay Kumar Khan, Tanvir Rashan Wakhlu, Ashish J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Congenital ranula is rare. We report a large, symptomatic, congenital plunging ranula associated with a salivary gland cyst in the neck. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such reported case. Even though both the cysts had their origin from the sublingual gland, only the cervical cyst had a capsular covering. Herniation of a part of the immature sublingual gland anlage through a congenital mylohyoid defect, its separation, and subsequent maturation could explain this occurrence. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5615903/ /pubmed/28974881 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_260_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Ectopic Salivary Gland Cyst in the Neck: Association with Congenital Plunging Ranula
title_full Ectopic Salivary Gland Cyst in the Neck: Association with Congenital Plunging Ranula
title_fullStr Ectopic Salivary Gland Cyst in the Neck: Association with Congenital Plunging Ranula
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title_short Ectopic Salivary Gland Cyst in the Neck: Association with Congenital Plunging Ranula
title_sort ectopic salivary gland cyst in the neck: association with congenital plunging ranula
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