Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Sublingual epidermoid cyst: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Case report Open Access Sublingual epidermoid cyst a case report Tolga Kandogan 1 Murat Koẹ1 Enver Vardar2 Elif Selek2 and Ozlem Sezgin3 Address Department of Otolaryngology Izmir Teaching and Research Hospital Bozyaka 35220 Izmir Turkey 2Department of Pathology Izmir Teaching and Research Hospital Bozyaka 35220 Izmir Turkey and 3Department of Radiology Izmir Teaching and Research Hospital Bozyaka 35220 Izmir Turkey Email Tolga Kandogan - tkandogan@ Murat Koẹ - muratkoc@ Enver Vardar - evardar@ Elif Selek - elif@ Ozlem Sezgin - osezgin@ Corresponding author Published 17 September 2007 Received 4 June 2007 -. . J _. n Accepted 17 September 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007 1 87 doi 86 1752-1947-1-87 This article is available from http content 1 1 87 2007 Kandogan et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Epidermoid and dermoid cysts represent less than of all oral cavity cysts. The cysts can be defined as epidermoid when the lining presents only epithelium dermoid cysts when skin adnexa are found and teratoid cysts when other tissue such as muscle cartilage and bone are present. In this article we present the case of an epidermoid cyst with an oral as well as a submental component in an 11 year old boy who presented with complaints of a mass in the oral cavity difficulty chewing and swallowing of solid foods for about 3 years. He was admitted to the otolaryngology department. On examination a mass displacing the tongue superiorly and posteriorly was noticed. An MRI scan was done and showed a 40 X 35 mm well-circumscribed nonenhancing cystic mass extending from the .
