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March 2007 : Single smooth surfaced and well-demarcated nodule, floor of mouth

Dolphine Oda, BDS, MSc
e-mail: doda@u.washington.edu

Case Summary and Diagnostic Information

This is a healthy six-year-old boy with a single asymptomatic, smooth-surfaced, dome-shaped exophytic nodule on the floor of the mouth referred to as “sublingual ranula”.

	History of Present Illness
	Medical History
	Clinical and Radiographic Findings
	Excisional Biopsy

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Contributed by
Drs. Erich Naumann & Mark Egbert
Seattle Children’s Hospital, WA