Congenital epignathus associated with a cleft palate: a case report

BACKGROUND: Epignathus is a rare, benign, congenital teratoma of the hard palate with an estimated incidence of 1 in 200,000 live births. Epignathus frequently leads to a high mortality (80–100%) due to airway obstruction in the neonatal period. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of successful mana...

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Autores principales: Lele Mutombo, Fabrice, Nzanzu Kikuhe, Jason, Kasereka Mwanamolo, Noé, Erickson, Marc H., Wetzig, Neil, Kabuyaya Kakule, Médard
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8330006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34340710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-021-03007-w
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author Lele Mutombo, Fabrice
Nzanzu Kikuhe, Jason
Kasereka Mwanamolo, Noé
Erickson, Marc H.
Wetzig, Neil
Kabuyaya Kakule, Médard
author_facet Lele Mutombo, Fabrice
Nzanzu Kikuhe, Jason
Kasereka Mwanamolo, Noé
Erickson, Marc H.
Wetzig, Neil
Kabuyaya Kakule, Médard
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description BACKGROUND: Epignathus is a rare, benign, congenital teratoma of the hard palate with an estimated incidence of 1 in 200,000 live births. Epignathus frequently leads to a high mortality (80–100%) due to airway obstruction in the neonatal period. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of successful management of a rare oropharyngeal teratoma in a African newborn girl who was referred to our institute with a large protruding intraoral mass, combined with cleft palate, causing some respiratory compromise. The palatal mass was removed on the fifth day after birth, and a palatoplasty performed on day 30. CONCLUSION: Epignathus is a life-threatening condition at the time of delivery. Appropriate management begins with securing the airway, followed by complete resection of the tumor.
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spelling pubmed-83300062021-08-03 Congenital epignathus associated with a cleft palate: a case report Lele Mutombo, Fabrice Nzanzu Kikuhe, Jason Kasereka Mwanamolo, Noé Erickson, Marc H. Wetzig, Neil Kabuyaya Kakule, Médard J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Epignathus is a rare, benign, congenital teratoma of the hard palate with an estimated incidence of 1 in 200,000 live births. Epignathus frequently leads to a high mortality (80–100%) due to airway obstruction in the neonatal period. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of successful management of a rare oropharyngeal teratoma in a African newborn girl who was referred to our institute with a large protruding intraoral mass, combined with cleft palate, causing some respiratory compromise. The palatal mass was removed on the fifth day after birth, and a palatoplasty performed on day 30. CONCLUSION: Epignathus is a life-threatening condition at the time of delivery. Appropriate management begins with securing the airway, followed by complete resection of the tumor. BioMed Central 2021-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8330006/ /pubmed/34340710 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-021-03007-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Wetzig, Neil
Kabuyaya Kakule, Médard
Congenital epignathus associated with a cleft palate: a case report
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