Floor Of The Mouth Epidermoid

At imaging they appear as midline simple cystic lesions and are often indistinguishable from ranulas fig 12.

Floor of the mouth epidermoid.

1 department of oral medicine and radiology manipal college of dental sciences manipal university mangalore karnataka india. Vc cns h n s part ii. Dermoid epidermoid and teratomata teratoid cysts 1 2. Neuro part 1 part 1 h and n residents.

Epidermoid cysts are lined by simple squamous epithelium and are more frequently seen in the floor of mouth than in the submandibular space. A cyst on the floor of the mouth is known as a ranula. Excision of the lesion confirmed a diagnosis of dermoid cyst of the floor of mouth. This case reports a 43 year old male patient who presented with a longstanding midline swelling in the submental region.

They can also develop around a piercing. Initial imaging was done using ultrasound followed by computed tomography ct scan. 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. Dermoid cysts in the floor of the mouth have been the subject of a good many researches.

Epidermoid cyst of the floor of the mouth. Vc cns h n s part ii. Baliga m 1 shenoy n 1 poojary d 1 mohan r 1 naik r 2. From 1970 to 1986 117 patients with t1 47 or t2 70 epidermoid carcinomas of the floor of the mouth scc were treated by iridium 192 implantation 192 ir.

References 5 public playlist includes this case. The dose was prescribed according to the paris system and varied over those years. 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.

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. The term dermoid cyst in the floor of the mouth is used to describe three types of histologically related cysts. Epidermoid cysts of the floor of the mouth are rare lesions and are much less common than dermoid cysts in the head and neck. A cyst on the gums is called an epulis.

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.