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Ectopic submandibular gland presenting as a swelling in the floor of mouth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

S T Barlow
Affiliation:
the Department of Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology, University Dental Hospital, Cardiff, UK.
N A Drage
Affiliation:
the Department of Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology, University Dental Hospital, Cardiff, UK.
D W Thomas
Affiliation:
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK.

Abstract

The authors describe a patient who presented with a left sublingual swelling. Ultrasonic and sialographic investigation showed no salivary tissue in the expected left submandibular region, but a large salivary gland in the left floor of the mouth deep to the mylohyoid muscle. This is likely to represent an ectopically positioned submandibular gland.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2005 Royal Society of Medicine Press

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