Mucocele de retención. Revisión a propósito de un caso
- Juan Francisco Peña Cardelles
- Iván García Guerrero
- Daniel Ortega Concepción
- Daniel Robles Cantero
- Aralar Cerezo Cano
- Antonio López-Sánchez
- Rafael Gómez de Diego
- José Ernesto Moro Rodríguez
ISSN: 1697-6398, 1697-641X
Year of publication: 2020
Volume: 17
Issue: 2
Pages: 13-18
Type: Article
More publications in: Científica dental: Revista científica de formación continuada
Abstract
The oral mucocele is a soft tissue lesion with high prevalence in the oral cavity, the oral mucocele can be find associated with functional and aesthetic alterations. The etiology is related to the alteration in the salivary glands, the most frequent location corresponding to the lower lip. The treatment consists in surgical removal because they can be of considerable size. The following describes the case of a male patient, of advanced age, who has a large mucocele located in the lower lip, a region in which surgical removal was performed and subsequent histopathological analysis.