A hemangioma on the floor of the mouth presenting as a ranula
dc.creator | Skoulakis, C. E. | en |
dc.creator | Khaldi, L. | en |
dc.creator | Serletis, D. | en |
dc.creator | Semertzidis, T. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-23T10:47:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-11-23T10:47:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0145-5613 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11615/33089 | |
dc.description.abstract | A painless, bluish, submucosal swelling on one side of the floor of the mouth usually indicates the presence of a ranula. Rarely, such a swelling may be caused by an inflammatory disease process in a salivary gland, a neoplasm in the sublingual salivary gland, a lymphatic nodular swelling, or embryologic cysts. We report a patient with swelling in the floor of her mouth that was clinically diagnosed as a ranula. Suspicion arose during surgery that it was a vascular tumor and, on histologic testing, the swelling was confirmed to be a hemangioma. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the literature of a hemangioma presenting as ranula. | en |
dc.source | Ent-Ear Nose & Throat Journal | en |
dc.source.uri | <Go to ISI>://WOS:000207475100007 | |
dc.subject | Otorhinolaryngology | en |
dc.title | A hemangioma on the floor of the mouth presenting as a ranula | en |
dc.type | journalArticle | en |
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