Abstract

BIN, Luiza Roberta; DELLA-GIUSTINA, Jean Carlos  and  CRISTALDO-ACOSTA, Evelyn Estefani. Epidermoid cyst of the tonge: two new cases of an extremely uncommon entity. Rev Esp Cirug Oral y Maxilofac [online]. 2022, vol.44, n.4, pp.167-170.  Epub Apr 17, 2023. ISSN 2173-9161.  https://dx.doi.org/10.20986/recom.2023.1409/2022.

Epidermoid cyst (EC) is a benign lesion that emerges as a painless and fluctuating increase of volume. EC is a rare injury in the oral cavity and its diagnostic through clinical exams and conventional radiography provides limited results. Thus, the purpose of the current work is to report two cases of rare tongue lesions diagnosed as EC in two adult patients treated surgically. A 65-year old man and a 40-year old woman were complaining of a "little ball" in their tongue. The patients presented tongue lesions in anatomical sites with distinct clinical presentations. The adopted treatment was a resection of the lesion and, after a histopathological analysis, the final diagnostic pointed to an epidermoid cyst. In the current cases, the lesion occurred in the belly and dorsum of the tongue, and both were treated surgically. And so they became the 14th and 15th cases of EC in tongues found in the literature, thus confirming the relevance of the current work.

Keywords : Epidermoid cyst; oral cavity; oral surgery.

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