Case of the Week # 123

Lívia Rios, MD

July 16-29, 2004

São Luís - Brazil

This is a 24-year-old patient seen in the second trimester:

AAFL
AAFM
AAFO
AAFP

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Answer

This is a 24-year-old patient seen in the second trimester:

AAFL
AAFM
AAFO
AAFP

The large mass arising from the mouth could represent

  1. an epignathus (but it would be more solid and the roof of the mouth would be abnormal)
  2. a epulis (a granular cell tumor usually from the gingiva)
  3. a oral cephalocele (but the intracranial anatomy was too normal)
  4. Ranula which is a obstructed salivary duct

This was indeed a ranula.

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