A Hemangioma on the Floor of the Mouth Presenting as a Ranula

A painless, bluish, submucosal swelling on one side of the floor of the mouth usually indicates the presence of a ranula. Rarely, such a swelling may be caused by an inflammatory disease process in a salivary gland, a neoplasm in the sublingual salivary gland, a lymphatic nodular swelling, or embryo...

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Published in:Ear, nose, & throat journal nose, & throat journal, 2008-11, Vol.87 (11), p.628-630
Main Authors: Skoulakis, Charalampos E., Khaldi, Lubna, Serletis, Demetre, Semertzidis, Themistoklis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged, 80 and over
Blood clots
Diagnosis
Diagnosis, Oral
Drug therapy
Female
Health care
Hemangioma
Hemangioma - diagnosis
Hemangioma - pathology
Hemangioma - surgery
Humans
Larynx
Medical imaging
Mouth diseases
Mouth Mucosa - pathology
Mouth Mucosa - surgery
Mouth Neoplasms - diagnosis
Mouth Neoplasms - pathology
Mouth Neoplasms - surgery
Ranula - diagnosis
Ranula - pathology
Ranula - surgery
Tomography
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Summary:A painless, bluish, submucosal swelling on one side of the floor of the mouth usually indicates the presence of a ranula. Rarely, such a swelling may be caused by an inflammatory disease process in a salivary gland, a neoplasm in the sublingual salivary gland, a lymphatic nodular swelling, or embryologic cysts. We report a patient with swelling in the floor of her mouth that was clinically diagnosed as a ranula. Suspicion arose during surgery that it was a vascular tumor and, on histologic testing, the swelling was confirmed to be a hemangioma. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the literature of a hemangioma presenting as ranula.
ISSN:0145-5613
1942-7522
DOI:10.1177/014556130808701109