Lingual Cyst with Columnar Epithelium in an Adult : A Case Report

• DOI: 10.17779/kaomp.2020.44.3.005
• Publication Date: 2020-07-28T02:10:34Z
• Authors: Seung-Woo Shin; Dawool Han; Kihyun Im; Min Yeong Youn; Woong Nam
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine

Lingual cyst is a clinical term indicating occurring within the tongue.Various disease may clinically present as lingual cyst, such foregut dermoid thyroglossal duct salivary hemangioma and ranula.In general, cysts are asymptomatic but cause airway obstruction, feeding or swallowing problems.Most of these lesions can be simply treated by surgical excision with good postoperative healing low recurrence rate.Apart from that, histopathological diagnosis lesion important because it means origin lesion.Thus to rule out several origins histopathologically, might related adjacent anatomical structure indicate on other sites.Herein, we reported case columnar epithelium at ventral tongue 46-year old man reviewed considerations required for further classification in cysts.