Usually involves Sublingual gland. Less common – submandibular salivary glands or from minor salivary glands in floor of mouth
Why Called Ranula????
“rana” means frog because this lesion often resemble a frog’s translucent underbelly, thus called as RANULA
Dome shaped, painless, slow-growing, soft, movable mass, translucent blue in color located in the floor of the mouth. Deeper ranulas are normal in color
Lateral to midline of floor of mouth
Usually larger than other mucoceles
May grow to a large size filling floor of mouth and elevating tongue
Plunging/cervical ranula – a rare suprahyoid type of ranula, spilled mucin extends from the sublingual space around or through the mylohyoid muscle to the submandibular space producing swelling within the neck
Microscopic features similar to that of a Mucocele in other locations.
TREATMENT
Either marsupialization (not very effective) or more often excision of entire sublingual gland
Sometimes may recurs if the entire sublingual gland or other gland causing them is not excised with the lesion
REFERENCES
Shafer’s Textbook Of Oral Pathology
Shear – Cysts Of The Oral & Maxillofacial Regions
Neville – Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology
Image – Wikipedia & Wikimedia Commons
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