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Monday, August 20, 2012
Frog
Challenge: What is this blue, fluctuant swelling?
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4 comments:
Jimmy/PA-C
said...
Sublingual salivary gland stone, either huge stone or smaller stone obstructing gland orfice. Have seen a few in my time..
4 comments:
Sublingual salivary gland stone, either huge stone or smaller stone obstructing gland orfice. Have seen a few in my time..
Ranula (a retention cyst)
the differential definitely includes ranula or obstruction to the salivary gland...the color here suggests ranula.
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Frog
This is a ranula, a pseudocyst associated with the sublingual glands and submandibular ducts.
Sources: UpToDate; Wikipedia.
Ranula as it is. This has something to do with mucus extravasation and obstruction of salivary gland as what Craig Chen has been said.
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