Abstract

DEL VALLE, Sol C.. Mucoceles  en Cara Ventral de Lengua: Reporte de 6 casos y manejo quirúrgico . Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2002, vol.40, n.3, pp.286-288. ISSN 0001-6365.

Mucocele is the clinical term that correspond, histopathologically to mucus retention or extravasation phenomenon, caused by the rupture or obstruction of thr minor salivary glands duct. The most common location was the inferior labial mucosa. Oral mucosa and palate; followed by the ventral side of the tongue. ^(1-2) 6 patients were studied with clinical diagnosis of Mucocele in the ventral face of the tongue that attending the Oral Pathology Diagnosis Service between 2000 and 2001. Excisional biopsy was performed for each patient, corresponding the histopathological diagnosis with a mucus retention phenomenon . They were closely follow up, first after 15 days, then 4 weeks and 12 weeks, respectively. Three of these 6 patients, at the second post-operatory control, had recurrence and we planified marsupialization and the other three patients did not  have any lesion. The patients that needed a second surgery, were evaluated afterward by 4 weeks and 12 weeks respectively. The cases of mucocele on the ventral face of the tongue  demonstrated that their location are less frequently when we compared whit data reported by the literature and the reviewed of 10 years of all the mucoceles cases studied at The Histopathological Department "Pedro Tinoco" of the Dental School of the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Central University of Venezuela).

Keywords : Mucocele; Glandulas Salivares; Cirugia bucal.