A giant congenital ranula: ignorance leading to feeding difficulties

Giant plunging ranula: a case report

A ranula is a bluish, transparent, and thin-walled swelling in the floor of the mouth. They originate from the extravasation and subsequent accumulation of saliva from the sublingual gland. Ranulas are usually limited to the sublingual space but they sometimes extend to the submandibular space and parapharyngeal space, which is defined as a plunging ranula. A 21-year-old woman presented with a ...

Congenital ranula : antenatal sonographic diagnosis *

Rânula congênita uma rara malformação cística visualizada na cavidade oral. É um pseudocisto habitualmente localizado no espaço sublingual entre o músculo milo-hioideo e a mucosa da língua. Relata-se um caso de gestante de 24 anos, G3P2, com idade gestacional de 29 semanas, encaminhada por conta de polidrâmnio e grande massa de cavidade oral de natureza cística. Unitermos: Diagnóstico pré-natal...

Leading The Ignorant: Can Ignorance Eliminate The Free Riding Problem?

A Case of Congenital Ranula Operated in The Early Infancy

Ranula is a mucus extravasation cyst originating from the sublingual gland on the floor of the mouth. Congenital ranula is very rare. The treatment of ranula includes aspiration of mucus, incision and drainage, marsupialization, injection of sclerosing agents, excision of the ranula with or without excision of the ipsilateral sublingual gland. In this study, we presented a congenital ranula exc...

A Rare Case of Congenital Ranula in an Infant

Ranula is a mucus extravasation cyst originating from the sublingual gland on the floor of the mouth. Congenital ranula is very rare. We report a case of a 4-month-old girl with a congenital ranula in the floor of mouth. The ranula was treated first by marsupialization, but the cyst recurred after 1 week. Excision of the ranula was done and was successful.