Two cases of plunging ranula managed by the intraoral approach

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-65

  Hidaka, Hiroshi ^a,b   Oshima, Takeshi ^a   Kakehata, Seiji ^a   Watanabe, Ken Ichi ^a   Toshima, Masaru ^a   Suzuki, Hideaki ^b   Kobayashi, Toshimitsu ^b  

^a Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intraoral approach; Plunging ranula; Sublingual gland

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISSECTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCISION; MUCOCELE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SALIVARY GLAND TUMOR; SUBLINGUAL GLAND; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RANULA; SUBLINGUAL GLAND;

EID: 0042171749     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.200.59     Document Type: Article

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