Cavernous hemangioma in the floor of oral cavity masquerading as a ranula

• Main Authors: Puneeta Vohra (Author), Vinod Vijay Chandar (Author), Ranjit Patil (Author), Saumya Verma (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A painless, bluish, submucosal swelling on one side of the floor of the mouth usually indicates the presence of a ranula. Rarely, such a swelling may be caused by an inflammatory disease process in a salivary gland, a neoplasm in the sublingual salivary gland, hemangiomas, a lymphatic nodular swelli...