Ranula a cystic swelling in floor of mouth.
Cystic swelling floor of mouth.
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Ranulae present as a swelling of connective tissue consisting of collected mucin from a ruptured salivary gland caused by local trauma.
The cyst develops when the mouth s salivary glands become plugged with mucus.
Mucoceles show up on the inside of your lower lips your gums the roof of your mouth or under your tongue.
The term ranula is derived from the latin word rana which means frog.
A ranula is a mucus extravasation cyst involving a sublingual gland and is a type of mucocele found on the floor of the mouth.
Mucous cysts are fluid filled sacs that form in the tissues of the fingers toes and mouth.
Ranula describes a diffuse swelling in the floor of the mouth caused by either a mucous extravasation or less commonly a mucous retention due.
Other differential diagnoses of cystic lesions at the floor of the mouth are ranula dermoid and epidermoid cysts soft nodular lesions with sessile base lipoma asymptomatic yellowish mass with doughy feel vascular lymphatic malformations usually in infants soft and compressible mass wharton duct blockage pain and swelling of the affected salivary gland which get worse with chewing and smell of food infections painful fever adenopathy and associated dysphagia and neoplasms.
If small and asymptomatic further treatment may not be needed otherwise minor oral surgery may be indicated.