Ranula Of Floor Of Mouth

A ranula can be classified based on its extent.

Ranula of floor of mouth. If small and asymptomatic further treatment may not be needed otherwise minor oral surgery may be indicated. Ranulas are mucoceles that occur in the floor of the mouth and usually involve the major salivary glands. Oral a and cervical b components a ranula may also track posteriorly along tissue. They include lesions that arise uniquely in this location eg ranula submandibular duct obstruction as well as various malignancies inflammatory processes and vascular abnormalities that may also occur elsewhere in the head and neck.

Ranula means a small frog and the cyst is so called because of a supposed resemblance to a small frog. Confined to the sublingual space. If a ranula stays in the mouth underneath the tongue it is called a simple ranula. The cyst enlarges slowly penetrating the deep structures of the floor of the mouth above the mylohyoid muscle.

Ranula a ranula latin word rana meaning frog describes a blue translucent swelling in the floor of the mouth reminiscent of the underbelly of a frog. They result from obstruction of a sublingual gland or adjacent minor salivary gland with resultant formation of a mucous retention cyst 1 5. Ranula is a clinical term for a mucocele or mucous retention cyst located on the floor of the mouth and arises from trauma to the sublingual or submandibular salivary glands fig. A wide range of pathologic processes may involve the floor of the mouth the part of the oral cavity that is located beneath the tongue.

Ranula in floor of mouth a plunging ranula extends into the sub mandibular triangle of the neck through a defect in the mylohyoid muscle or less commonly by passing behind the posterior edge of the muscle figure 2. These lesions can be acquired or congenital and most are unilateral although they can rarely be bilateral. These slow growing benign growths are found on the floor of the mouth and can vary in size. Ranulae present as a swelling of connective tissue consisting of collected mucin from a ruptured salivary gland caused by local trauma.

It is an uncommon type of mucus filled cyst mucocœle arising from the sublingual or submandibular salivary glands in the floor of the mouth. It is filled with saliva that has leaked out of a damaged salivary gland. A ranula is a transparent retention cyst in the floor of the mouth arising from the sublingual salivary glands. If it grows down into the neck it is called a plunging ranula.

Ranulas are clear or bluish cysts caused by a blocked salivary gland in the mouth. Ranulas arise either spontaneously or as a result of trauma to the floor of mouth including surgery.