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MeSH Tree Location(s) for Ranula

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A form of retention cyst of the floor of the mouth, usually due to obstruction of the ducts of the submaxillary or sublingual glands, presenting a slowly enlarging painless deep burrowing mucocele of one side of the mouth. It is also called sublingual cyst and sublingual ptyalocele.


Location corresponding to Mesh Number C04.182.766

Cysts  Cystor
Ranula   Ranula
Retentionscysta under tungan
Location corresponding to Mesh Number C07.465.780

Mouth Diseases  Munsjukdomar
Ranula   Ranula
Retentionscysta under tungan
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