A dermoid cyst in the floor of mouth accounts for 1 1 6 of all dermoid cysts 1 3 4.
Floor of mouth dermoid.
Ranula dermoid cysts and epidermoid cysts.
Generally they present during the 2nd 3rd decade of life with no sex preponderance 1 5.
Her parents noticed a swelling below the jaw and visited the physician.
A ranula is a mucus retention cyst arising from a sublingual or minor salivary gland.
Clinically a cystic midline swelling moving with deglutition was palpable in the submental region with suspicious extension into sublingual space.
Its occurrence is less and is estimated to be from 1 6 to 6 4 x25.
Dermoid cysts dermoids of the floor of the mouth.
The acquired form may be due to traumatic or iatrogenic causes and as a result of the occlusion of a sebaceous gland duct.
Dermoid cysts dermoids of the floor of the mouth oral surg oral med oral pathol.
Dermoid cysts in the floor of the mouth may be congenital or acquired.
The main differential includes.
Cystic lesions of the floor of the mouth are well recognised and can be congenital or acquired.
Floor of mouth dermoid cysts account for 1 6 of all dermoid cysts 2 and they usually present as a midline symmetrical slowly enlarging lesion.
Dermoid cysts dermoids of the floor of the mouth.
Cysts superficial to geniohyoid may cause posterosuperior displacement of the tongue dysphonia dysphagia 3 or airway obstruction 4.
False sialoceles hydatid cysts and thyroglossal duct cysts 3.