Simple ranulas remain confined to the sublingual space. Mucocele is the most common expansile benign lesion of the paranasal sinuses. What should be included in patient education about. These lesions occur as the result of trauma or obstruction to the salivary gland excretory duct and spillage of mucin into the surrounding soft tissues. Ithsamar porras fernandez dds daniela zamora arce dds. Ranula is a retention cyst of the sublingual gland, which enlarges progressively and extends into the surrounding soft tissues. Mucocele, mucous extravasation cysts, excision, lower lip, minor salivary glands i. Xanthocanace ranula, is a european species of canacidae. Pdf a ranula can be defined as a mucous filled cavity, a mucocele located in the floor of the mouth with the sublingual gland. Occasionally, diving ranulas may attain large dimensions giant ranula. These lesions occur as the result of trauma or obstruction to the salivary gland excretory duct and spillage of mucin into the surrounding soft ti. A ranula may also be classified as a plunging ranula when it extends into and past the mylohyoid muscle.
Extravasation mucocele results from a broken salivary. Look up words and phrases in comprehensive, reliable bilingual dictionaries and search through billions of online translations. Studentrdh provides lots of free educational content for the dental hygiene community. In children, the extravasaron phenomenon is the most frequenily found due to trauma, while in adults the retention presentation is the most common one due to a sialolith, thus producing a salivary retention cyst.
It is a mucous retention phenomenon of the large salivary glands, in contrast with mucoceles, which originate from minor salivary glands. Mucocele salival american college of veterinary surgeons. The most common site of the mucocele is the interior surface of the lower lip followed by the tongue, floor of mouth ranula, and the buccal mucosa. Mucocele involves mucin accumulation causing limited swelling 1. Aids as an etiological factor of oral mucocele and ranula is not clearly established. The mission of acvs is to advance the art and science of surgery and promote excellence in animal health care through research, education and service to the public. The ranula results from an injury to the ducts in the floor of the mouth that involves the sublingual gland duct bartholins ducts, and occasionally the submandibular gland duct whartons duct. Giant ranula can be defined as any ranula that significantly involves the parapharyngeal space in addition to the submandibular space. Collectively, the mucocele, the oral ranula, and the cervical, or plunging, ranula are clinical terms for a pseudocyst that is associated with mucus extravasation into the surrounding soft tissues. E medicine, instant acces to the minds of medicine serial online. However, ranula has been linked to hiv infection in the literature. Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report.
Only about 1% of these mucoceles arise within the sphenoid sinus. Surgery may not be required if the ranula is small and asymptomatic when found on the floor of the mouth, the mucocele is referred to as a ranula it may occur following rupture of a simple ranula alternatively, ranula is described as being derived from the greek word for the swollen area below the mouth of a frog. Kobayashi t, ochi k, komatsuzaki y, sugiura n, saito s 2003 blanket removal of the sublingual gland for treatment of plunging ranula. Introduction the term mucocele is derived from a latin word, mucus and cocele means cavity. Ranula, surgical versus nonsurgical treatment alternatives. Diferencias entre mucocele y ranula trabajos finales.
The american college of veterinary surgeons is the agency by which veterinarians are certified as specialists in surgery. As nouns the difference between mucocele and ranula is that mucocele is medicine an enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter while ranula is a small cyst on the floor of the mouth, under the tongue, which is associated with an obstruction of the major salivary gland. Oral mucocele is the most common benign minor accessory salivary gland lesion, caused due to mechanical trauma to the excretory duct of the gland. Mucocele is a common lesion of the oral mucosa that results from an alteration of minor salivary glands due to mucus accumulation causing limited swelling. Jinbu y, kusama m, itoh h, matsumoto k, wang j, noguchi t. Introduction mucocele is a common lesion of the oral mucosa that results from an alteration of minor salivary glands due to a mucous accumulation. This very large version of the typical diving ranula can be difficult to differentiate from cystic hygroma in this area on the basis of clinical and radiologic findings. Ranula, meaning froglike in latin, is a clinical variant of a mucocele that presents as a large swelling in the floor of the mouth fig. As diving ranula and cystic hygroma are managed with different surgical approaches, avoidance of this pitfall is critical. Extravasation mucocele results from a broken salivary gland duct and consequent spillage into the soft tissue around this gland. Two types of mucocele can appear extravasation and retention. Translate texts with the worlds best machine translation technology, developed by the creators of linguee. Lower lip cyst mucocele excision best of both worlds with dr. Last updated, october 8, 2002 cited 20032003 17 screens.
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