Congenital Mucous Retention Cyst of the Anterior Hard Palate! the First Case Report

Autor: Satya Ranjan Misra, Smita Priyadarshini, Abhishek Ranjan Pati, Sanat Kumar Bhuyan, Rajat G Panigrahi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, Vol 8, Iss 10, Pp ZD26-ZD27 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2249-782X
0973-709X
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2014/10348.5039
Popis: Children may be born with birth defects, the most common being oro-facial clefts and fissural cysts. A well circumscribed pedunculated soft tissue growth that occurs congenitally is known as congenital epulis of the newborn or ‘Neuman’s Tumour’ as described in the literature. It is a rare lesion and the diagnosis has to be confirmed histologically. We present a rare case of a 7-year-old child with a congenital growth in the pre-maxillary region of the anterior hard palate clinically diagnosed as congenital epulis however, histologically confirmed as a mucous retention cyst. An elaborate clinical differential diagnosis is discussed. The anterior hard palate is devoid of salivary glands and the presence of a mucous retention cyst in the area is suggestive of ectopic salivary gland tissue and in a child manifesting at birth is probably the first case to be reported in the English literature.
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