A cyst on the floor of the mouth is known as a ranula.
Floor of the mouth epidermoid.
Dermoid epidermoid and teratomata teratoid cysts 1 2.
1 department of oral medicine and radiology manipal college of dental sciences manipal university mangalore karnataka india.
This case reports a 43 year old male patient who presented with a longstanding midline swelling in the submental region.
Epidermoid cyst in the floor of mouth is painless doughy in consistency fluctuant lesion and causes no symptoms until they are large enough to interfere with chewing or speech.
Epidermoid cysts are a rare entity in the oral cavity and are even less frequent in the floor of the mouth representing less than 0 01 of all the cases.
Epidermoid cysts are lined by simple squamous epithelium and are more frequently seen in the floor of mouth than in the submandibular space.
Initial imaging was done using ultrasound followed by computed tomography ct scan.
The term dermoid cyst in the floor of the mouth is used to describe three types of histologically related cysts.
Jourdain 1778 called them sublingual dermoid cysts.
Dermoid cysts are more common in the head and neck region with the presence of fat content makes it easy for differentiation from an epidermoid cyst.
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Excision of the lesion confirmed a diagnosis of dermoid cyst of the floor of mouth.
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A differential of dermoid epidermoid was suggested.
We present the case of a 3 year old girl with a growth in the floor of the mouth with 2 months of evolution and without changes since it was discovered by her parents.
Epidermoid cysts of the floor of the mouth are rare lesions and are much less common than dermoid cysts in the head and neck.
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Dermoid cysts in the floor of the mouth have been the subject of a good many researches.
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They can also develop around a piercing.
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The presence of a central midline well defined thin walled cystic lesion resting at the floor of the mouth gives a differential of dermoid epidermoid cyst.
Epidermoid cyst of the floor of the mouth.
In this article a 23 years old girl presented with lesion almost filling the oral cavity as well as sub mental component giving appearance of double chin.
