Blandin and Nuhn mucocele in a pediatric patient.
Oral mucoceles are benign lesions that may appear in any location on the mucosal surfaces of the oral cavity where underlying minor salivary glands are found. The lower lip is the most frequently affected and the most widely reported location. Mucoceles involving the glands of Blandin and Nuhn are infrequent and constitute only about 1.9%-10.3% of the reported cases. Superficial mucoceles are a rare subtype of the Blandin and Nuhn mucoceles and are found only in 4.3%-10% of the mucocele excisions. The purpose of this report is to present a case of a superficial mucocele in the ventral surface of the tongue in a 7-year-old child. The lesion was treated with excisional biopsy.
['Jose|Sherin C|SC|', 'Abraham|K Korath|KK|', 'Khosla|Ektah|E|']
D001706:Biopsy D002648:Child D005260:Female D006801:Humans D007180:Incisor D009078:Mucocele D014060:Tongue Diseases D014081:Tooth Extraction D014094:Tooth, Deciduous
Mucocele salivary gland tongue