Cystic Swelling Floor Of Mouth

The cyst develops when the mouth s salivary glands become plugged with mucus.

Cystic swelling floor of mouth.

Ranula a cystic swelling in floor of mouth. A mucous cyst also known as a mucocele is a fluid filled swelling that occurs on the lip or the mouth. Mucoceles show up on the inside of your lower lips your gums the roof of your mouth or under your tongue. Other differential diagnoses of cystic lesions at the floor of the mouth are ranula dermoid and epidermoid cysts soft nodular lesions with sessile base lipoma asymptomatic yellowish mass with doughy feel vascular lymphatic malformations usually in infants soft and compressible mass wharton duct blockage pain and swelling of the affected salivary gland which get worse with chewing and smell of food infections painful fever adenopathy and associated dysphagia and neoplasms.

Mucous cysts are fluid filled sacs that form in the tissues of the fingers toes and mouth. Ranula describes a diffuse swelling in the floor of the mouth caused by either a mucous extravasation or less commonly a mucous retention due. A ranula is a mucus extravasation cyst involving a sublingual gland and is a type of mucocele found on the floor of the mouth. An oral mucous cyst will develop near one of the openings of the salivary glands under the tongue or on.

If small and asymptomatic further treatment may not be needed otherwise minor oral surgery may be indicated. The term ranula is derived from the latin word rana which means frog.