Dermoid Cyst of Tongue Masquerading as a Lingual Neurofibroma

Dermoid cysts of the tongue are rare lesions of the head-and-neck region with only 16 reported cases in the English literature to date. We describe a 5-year-old girl who presented with a swelling in her tongue. Imaging done earlier was reported as a neurofibroma. It turned out to be a dermoid cyst....

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Autores principales: Pattanaik, Varsha, Palagani, Revathi, Gharpure, Vivek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9997580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36910296
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.jiaps_187_21
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description Dermoid cysts of the tongue are rare lesions of the head-and-neck region with only 16 reported cases in the English literature to date. We describe a 5-year-old girl who presented with a swelling in her tongue. Imaging done earlier was reported as a neurofibroma. It turned out to be a dermoid cyst. This was the first such case at our institute and this article reviews the literature and describes the said case in detail.
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spelling pubmed-99975802023-03-10 Dermoid Cyst of Tongue Masquerading as a Lingual Neurofibroma Pattanaik, Varsha Palagani, Revathi Gharpure, Vivek J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Dermoid cysts of the tongue are rare lesions of the head-and-neck region with only 16 reported cases in the English literature to date. We describe a 5-year-old girl who presented with a swelling in her tongue. Imaging done earlier was reported as a neurofibroma. It turned out to be a dermoid cyst. This was the first such case at our institute and this article reviews the literature and describes the said case in detail. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023 2023-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9997580/ /pubmed/36910296 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.jiaps_187_21 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_short Dermoid Cyst of Tongue Masquerading as a Lingual Neurofibroma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9997580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36910296
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.jiaps_187_21
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