Sublingual Gland Excision and Sclerotherapy for Plunging Ranula and Management of Recurrence

Background and Objectives For plunging ranula, excision of the sublingual gland has been major treatment option, with sclerotherapy being widely used as minimal invasive treatment. We compared outcomes these two methods an initial for ranula investigated salvage procedure in recurred patients.Subjects Method Patients were classified into group (n=35) (n=39) according to type their The determined recurrence or non-recurrence at 3 months after treatment, statistically between groups.Results Recurrence sclerothearpy (n=20, 51.3%) showed a significantly higher rate (p<0.001) than (n=3, 8.6%). Recurring patients who received different from (n=7) cured, while those had same (n=11) 72.7% (n=8). There was no related complication among patients.Conclusion Sublingual more effective ethanol ranula. In addition, even failure sclerotherapy.