Floor Of Mouth Dermoid Radiology

Cysts superficial to geniohyoid may cause posterosuperior displacement of the tongue dysphonia dysphagia 3 or airway obstruction 4.

Floor of mouth dermoid radiology.

Her parents noticed a swelling below the jaw and visited the physician. Dermoid cysts of the floor of the mouth are rare accounting for 11 of all dermoid cysts in the head and neck region. A 13 year old child developed fever and headache. The mucosal surface of the floor of the mouth is easily examined clinically as superficial abnormalities can be assessed visually without the aid of imaging.

The main differential includes. The floor of the mouth is the part of the oral cavity that is located under the tongue. Cystic lesions of the floor of the mouth are well recognised and can be congenital or acquired. 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. False sialoceles hydatid cysts and thyroglossal duct cysts 3. We report a case of a dermoid cyst of the floor of the mouth in a 12 year old boy investigated with ultrasonography magnetic resonance imaging mri and non enhanced computed tomography ct scans. 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.

Ranula dermoid cysts and epidermoid cysts.