DA04.5
category
Mucocele of salivary gland
Definition
This is a cavity dilated with accumulated mucous extravasation; mucous retention cyst. maxillary sinus m., maxillary sinus retention cyst. Collectively, the mucocele, the oral ranula, and the cervical, or plunging, ranula are clinical terms for a pseudocyst that is associated with mucus extravasation into the surrounding soft tissues. These lesions occur as the result of trauma or obstruction to the salivary gland excretory duct and spillage of mucin into the surrounding soft tissues.
Also indexed as
Cyst of parotid glandCyst of sublingual glandCyst of submandibular glandMucocele of salivary glandRanula of salivary gland of floor of mouthcyst of salivary gland or ductextravasation cyst of salivary glandptyaloceleranula of floor of mouthretention cyst of salivary glandsalivary cystsalivary gland mucocelesialocelesublingual cyst