A 50-year-old man with a history of submental mass since childhood presented with increased swelling of the mass and discomfort with swallowing. Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration and histological biopsy were non-diagnostic. Computed tomography (CT) of the neck was performed. Noncontrast CT demonstrated soft tissue swelling in the submental region and a unilocular cystic mass with smooth ...

With an incidence of 1.2% in the general population, obstructive sialadenitis, with or without sialolithiasis, represents the most common inflammatory disorder of the major salivary glands.1,2 Sialoliths most commonly occur in the submandibular gland, outnumbering the parotid gland by approximately 4:1, while they occur in the sublingual gland in just 0-6.4% of cases.3,4,5 Because the sublingua...

We describe what we believe is the first reported case of a sublingual hematoma secondary to severe hypertension. The patient, a 77-year-old woman, experienced a spontaneous hematoma of the floor of the mouth, tongue, and sublingual space that eventually caused an airway obstruction. We performed an emergency tracheostomy under local anesthesia and then evacuated the hematoma through an incisio...

Ranula is a mucus extravasation cyst originating from the sublingual gland on the floor of the mouth. Congenital ranula is very rare. We report a case of a 4-month-old girl with a congenital ranula in the floor of mouth. The ranula was treated first by marsupialization, but the cyst recurred after 1 week. Excision of the ranula was done and was successful.

BACKGROUND Immunotherapy has shown to be an effective treatment for the management of some IgE-mediated allergies. However, due to its long duration, a high number of patients withdraw from it before completion. OBJECTIVE Explore if allowing patients to select the route of immunotherapy, educational sessions and strict follow-up could improve treatment compliance. METHODS Patients consultin...

Results: The mean age of patients were 32, and the male to female ratio was 4:3. The locations of the cysts were sublingual in four patients, submental in one patient, both submental and sublingual in one patient, and submandibular in one patient. Cyst excisions were performed by the extraoral, intraoral, and endoscopic assisted intraoral approaches. The histopathological diagnosis was dermoid ...

Xu and colleagues evaluated the impact of increasing mean arterial blood pressure levels through norepinephrine administration on systemic hemodynamics, tissue perfusion, and sublingual microcirculation of septic shock patients with chronic hypertension. The authors concluded that, although increasing arterial blood pressure improved sublingual microcirculation parameters, no concomitant improv...

Ranula is a mucus extravasation cyst originating from the sublingual gland on the floor of the mouth. Congenital ranula is very rare. The treatment of ranula includes aspiration of mucus, incision and drainage, marsupialization, injection of sclerosing agents, excision of the ranula with or without excision of the ipsilateral sublingual gland. In this study, we presented a congenital ranula exc...

A double-blind crossover study comparing the effects of 5 mg of isosorbide dinitrate given sublingually four times daily for 4 weeks to those of a placebo also administered sublingually four times daily for 4 weeks was performed on 20 male patients with classical exeitional angina pectoris due to coronary artery disease. Isosorbide dinitrate, compared to placebo, significantly reduced the numbe...

Appeared at the beginning of the 20th century, allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) has long been used in allergic rhinitis and asthma without any knowledge of its mechanisms of action or any tangible proof of its efficacy. However, from the beginning of the era of evidence-based medicine, a number of placebo-controlled studies have been published and reached a sufficient number to assess the ...